{"id":753669,"date":"2018-06-22T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753669"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:05:36","slug":"lion-murdered-after-escape-in-belgian-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753669","title":{"rendered":"Lion &#8216;murdered&#8217; after escape in Belgian zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>It became too dangerous and after the advice we got from the police, the crisis team decided to eliminate the animal.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BISHR EL-TOUNI:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A lion on the loose forced the evacuation of one Belgium&#8217;s most famous zoos&#8230; When it got close to an area with visitors, the decision was made to shoot it&#8230; &#8220;It became too dangerous and after the advice we got from the police, the crisis team decided to eliminate the animal,&#8221; said zoo director Dries Herpoelaert.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Until then, no visitor or staff member had been in danger&#8230; &#8220;This is terrible and inexplicable,&#8221; said regional animal welfare minister Ben Weyts. &#8220;I do not understand why not more attempts were made to sedate the lioness.&#8221; Weyts called for an investigation into both the escape of the animal and the decision to kill it&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/belgian-zoo-evacuated-lion-escapes-cage-095034130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kA48WvfK5c?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISHR EL-TOUNI: &#8216;A lion on the loose forced the evacuation of one Belgium&#8217;s most famous zoos&#8230; When it got close to an area with visitors, the decision was made to shoot it&#8230; &#8220;It became too dangerous and after the advice we got from the police, the crisis team decided to eliminate the animal,&#8221; said zoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,25],"tags":[27,28,37],"class_list":["post-753669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753671,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753669\/revisions\/753671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}