{"id":96580,"date":"2018-08-28T16:04:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96580"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:39:12","slug":"zoo-announces-winning-name-for-new-baby-patas-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96580","title":{"rendered":"Zoo announces winning name for new baby patas monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-96581\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM-696x900.jpg 696w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM-400x517.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/patas-baby-TBM.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>Zoo announces winning name for new baby patas monkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The results of a naming vote for the new baby patas monkey at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo are\u00a0in, and the winning name is Etta.<\/p>\n<p>Etta was born at the zoo Aug. 1, 2018, to patas parents Becca and MJ. Primate keepers\u00a0determined it is a female.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the zoo\u2019s summer Dinosaur Invasion! theme, keepers submitted five names of\u00a0dinosaur characters from &#8220;The Land Before Time&#8221; movies. Their selections were Mo, Foobie,\u00a0Etta, Ali and Shorty.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo held an online vote this week asking the public to vote for the best name. Almost 40\u00a0percent of more than 750 voters chose Etta.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cLand Before Time\u201d movies, Etta is a pteranodon voiced by Reba McIntyre.\u00a0The new baby is part of the Species Survival Plan for patas monkeys overseen by the\u00a0Association of Zoos &amp; Aquariums. Patas monkeys are native to the rainforests of Africa, where their population is declining due to poaching and habitat destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Etta will spend the next couple of months clinging to her mom at all times. They can be seen on\u00a0exhibit in the Social Animals wing of the zoo or outside in Primate Park along with Etta\u2019s older\u00a0sister, Kasi, and the rest of the zoo\u2019s patas monkey clan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoo announces winning name for new baby patas monkey The results of a naming vote for the new baby patas monkey at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo are\u00a0in, and the winning name is Etta. Etta was born at the zoo Aug. 1, 2018, to patas parents Becca and MJ. Primate keepers\u00a0determined it is a female. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}