{"id":98090,"date":"2020-03-30T00:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=98090"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:24:39","slug":"only-a-weeks-feed-stock-left-in-itanagar-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/only-a-weeks-feed-stock-left-in-itanagar-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a week&#8217;s feed stock left in Itanagar zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 29:<\/strong> The Itanagar zoo might face shortage of feed and fodder for its animals if the supply is disrupted in view of the nationwide lockdown.<br \/>\n&#8220;The animal food stock currently available in the zoo will last for a week only,&#8221; said Zoo Curator Raya Flago.<br \/>\n&#8220;Buffalo and cattle meat is fed to tigers while mutton, chicken, etc, are given to the leopards, besides nutrients to the birds,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThere are five tigers and three leopards in the zoo. A fully-grown tiger consumes 10 kgs of meat in one day, while a leopard consumes 7 kgs of meat per day, he said.<br \/>\nWhile the zoo is closed to visitors, disinfection of the zoo is carried out regularly, Flago said.<br \/>\nWhen contacted, PCCF Ajay Saxena said he would look into the matter.<br \/>\nThe feed and fodder for the zoo are supplied by contractors, and an agreement is made in this regard for a period of one year, said DCWLW Umesh Kumar.<br \/>\nInforming that the forest department has been exempted from the purview of the nationwide lockdown after an amendment, Kumar said the zoo animals should not starve because of the lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Mar 29: The Itanagar zoo might face shortage of feed and fodder for its animals if the supply is disrupted in view of the nationwide lockdown. &#8220;The animal food stock currently available in the zoo will last for a week only,&#8221; said Zoo Curator Raya Flago. &#8220;Buffalo and cattle meat is fed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090","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=98090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}