{"id":218629,"date":"2025-12-31T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-social-media-mourns-death-of-star-baboon-cindy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:50:08","slug":"namibia-social-media-mourns-death-of-star-baboon-cindy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-social-media-mourns-death-of-star-baboon-cindy\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Social Media Mourns Death of Star Baboon Cindy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Cindy the social media star Namibian baboon died on Sunday at the age of 31.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Cindy was adopted by the Lambrechts family after being orphaned as a baby. She lived with them on the family farm in the Khomas Hochland, just outside of Windhoek. She became famous on the internet through videos shared by Ruben Lambrechts, who grew up with Cindy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Today is one of the most heartbreaking days of our lives as we said goodbye to a sister, a beloved family member, and a mother to our animals,&#8221; said Lambrechts&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy the social media star Namibian baboon died on Sunday at the age of 31. Cindy was adopted by the Lambrechts family after being orphaned as a baby. She lived with them on the family farm in the Khomas Hochland, just outside of Windhoek. She became famous on the internet through videos shared by Ruben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12119,16566,6974,4959,9061,4706,724,257,3577,254,10128],"class_list":["post-218629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baboon","tag-cindy","tag-death","tag-media","tag-mourns","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}