{"id":87922,"date":"2026-09-26T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87922"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:23:00","slug":"meet-southeast-asias-first-okapi-calf-born-at-singapores-rainforest-wild-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87922","title":{"rendered":"Meet Southeast Asia&#8217;s first okapi calf, born at Singapore&#8217;s Rainforest Wild Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>WHAT&#8217;S HIS NAME?<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s still to be decided. However, the public gets a say.<\/p>\n<p>Mandai is currently asking members of the public to vote on their Facebook and Instagram pages for one of three names: Imara, meaning &#8220;strong&#8221; in Swahili; Mayaka, meaning &#8220;pearl&#8221; in Lingala; and Kiah, meaning &#8220;dawn&#8221;, &#8220;new beginnings&#8221; or &#8220;start of the season&#8221; in Swahili.<\/p>\n<p>Those hoping to catch a glimpse of the calf can also visit Hidden Forest at Rainforest Wild Adventure East, where he shares a habitat with Kisala. Xandor lives separately nearby. But if the little one decides he&#8217;d rather stay out of sight, visitors can check a &#8220;baby monitor&#8221; showing a live feed from his off-exhibit den.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Okapi Ranger Talks are also held at 10.30am and 3pm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/living\/first-baby-okapi-calf-southeast-asia-singapore-mandai-589581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT&#8217;S HIS NAME? That&#8217;s still to be decided. However, the public gets a say. Mandai is currently asking members of the public to vote on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}