{"id":180308,"date":"2021-12-25T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=180308"},"modified":"2021-12-25T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:00:47","slug":"female-giraffe-dies-in-assam-state-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/female-giraffe-dies-in-assam-state-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Female giraffe dies in Assam State Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Dec 24 (PTI) A four-year-old female giraffe has died in Assam State Zoo here, possibly due to &#8220;accidental suffocation&#8221;, a senior official of the facility said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The giraffe died late on Thursday night, and a post-mortem examination will be conducted to know the exact cause of death, Divisional Forest Officer (in-charge) of Assam State Zoo, Ashwini Kumar, told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prima facie, the death appears to be &#8221;accidental due to suffocation&#8221;, but the exact cause will be known only after the autopsy, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The giraffe, named Rongili, was brought to Assam in December 2019 from Patna Zoo and a male giraffe was brought from Mysore Zoo, with permission from the Central Zoo Authority (CZA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The male giraffe is doing fine,&#8221; Kumar added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Dec 24 (PTI) A four-year-old female giraffe has died in Assam State Zoo here, possibly due to &#8220;accidental suffocation&#8221;, a senior official of the facility said on Friday. The giraffe died late on Thursday night, and a post-mortem examination will be conducted to know the exact cause of death, Divisional Forest Officer (in-charge) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}