{"id":757683,"date":"2019-07-10T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757683"},"modified":"2019-07-10T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:34:11","slug":"animal-rights-activists-want-winnipeg-zoo-to-shut-down-stingray-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757683","title":{"rendered":"Animal Rights Activists Want Winnipeg Zoo to Shut Down Stingray Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CANADIAN PRESS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Animal rights activists want the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg to permanently shut down its interactive stingray exhibit. \u201cStingray Beach\u201d allows visitors to get up close to a shallow pool, and touch and feed the animals. The zoo temporarily closed it down last week after three stingrays died and another three were injured because of natural \u2014 but aggressive \u2014 mating behaviour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The randy cownose rays are being exposed to less daylight and colder water to try to fool them into thinking mating season has passed. The zoo says it won\u2019t permanently close the exhibit, which opened in May. Danae Tonge, who organized a small protest held on Sunday, says the stingrays are being used for entertainment and aren\u2019t in a natural setting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThey\u2019re being prodded at and that\u2019s not right,\u201d Tonge said. \u201cThey have nowhere to go to escape people. Their behaviour is being thrown off. They\u2019re being abused&#8221;&#8230; The zoo said&#8230; the injured rays are receiving treatment and recuperating&#8230; a decision on when to reopen will be done based on what\u2019s best for the stingrays&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/animal-rights-activists-want-winnipeg-zoo-to-shut-down-stingray-exhibit_2987313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=1523538499845\" width=\"793\" height=\"446\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANADIAN PRESS: &#8216;Animal rights activists want the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg to permanently shut down its interactive stingray exhibit. \u201cStingray Beach\u201d allows visitors to get up close to a shallow pool, and touch and feed the animals. The zoo temporarily closed it down last week after three stingrays died and another three were injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,35],"class_list":["post-757683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757683","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=757683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757686,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757683\/revisions\/757686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}