{"id":46745,"date":"2022-07-26T00:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/monkey-attacks-injure-people-japanese-city-yamaguchi-tranquilliser-gun"},"modified":"2022-07-26T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:57:47","slug":"monkey-attacks-injure-42-people-in-japanese-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46745","title":{"rendered":"Monkey attacks injure 42 people in Japanese city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Yamaguchi to use tranquilliser guns after macaques \u2013 or possibly one aggressive individual \u2013 uncharacteristically target adults and children<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in a Japanese city are to use tranquilliser guns to confront marauding monkeys that have injured 42 people in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese macaques are common across large parts of the country and are a pest in some areas, eating crops and sometimes entering homes. But a spate of monkey attacks in Yamaguchi in the west of the country has been unusual, with adults and children suffering wounds including scratches and bites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/monkey-attacks-injure-people-japanese-city-yamaguchi-tranquilliser-gun\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Yamaguchi to use tranquilliser guns after macaques \u2013 or possibly one aggressive individual \u2013 uncharacteristically target adults and childrenLocal authorities in a Japanese city are to use tranquilliser guns to confront marauding monkeys &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,88,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46745\/revisions\/46746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}