{"id":415470,"date":"2010-03-10T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f887e2a970c"},"modified":"2010-03-10T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:13:50","slug":"your-morning-adorable-kangaroos-canoodle-at-switzerlands-basel-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415470","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Kangaroos canoodle at Switzerland&#8217;s Basel Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Western gray kangaroos at Switzerland's Basel Zoo\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9219483970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9219483970b-600wi\" style=\"width: 600px;\"><\/img> <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s cuter than a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Grey_Kangaroo\">western gray kangaroo<\/a>?<em> Two<\/em> western gray kangaroos. And what&#8217;s even cuter than <em>that<\/em>? Two western gray kangaroos engaged in a public display of affection.<\/p>\n<p>These two are residents of Switzerland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoobasel.ch\/\">Basel Zoo<\/a>, where they live in a mob (the word that describes a group of kangaroos) that grew substantially last spring when <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/04\/your-morning-adorable-western-grey-kangaroo-joey-at-switzerlands-basel-zoo.html\">several joeys were born<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Western gray kangaroos are among the most common species of kangaroo, and also among the largest. Males are typically much larger than females &#8212; sometimes twice as big. And, of course, they&#8217;re expert hoppers &#8212; a really fast western gray <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookfieldzoo.org\/pagegen\/htm\/fix\/fg\/fg_body.asp?sAnimal=western+gray+kangaroo\">can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>See another photo of this cuddly couple after the jump!<br \/><\/br>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Western gray kangaroos at Switzerland's Basel Zoo\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f885bed970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f885bed970c-800wi\" title=\"Western gray kangaroos at Switzerland's Basel Zoo\"><\/img> <\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/05\/orphaned-kangaroo-joeys-in-australia.html\">Your morning adorable: Kangaroo joeys get a helping hand in Australia<\/a><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/04\/rejected-kangaroo-joey-inspires-international-cooperation.html\">Rejected kangaroo joey inspires international cooperation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Georgios Kefalas \/ European Pressphoto Agency<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s cuter than a western gray kangaroo? Two western gray kangaroos. And what&#8217;s even cuter than that? Two western gray kangaroos engaged in a public display of affection. These two are residents of Switzerland&#8217;s Basel Zoo, where they live in a mob (the word that describes a group of kangaroos) that grew substantially last spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}