{"id":60496,"date":"2023-12-12T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/japan-zoo-investigates-possible-mass-squirrel-poisoning"},"modified":"2023-12-12T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:24:28","slug":"japan-zoo-investigates-possible-mass-squirrel-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60496","title":{"rendered":"Japan zoo investigates possible mass squirrel poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of the animals died after they were treated with anti-parasitic medicine<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese zoo has launched an investigation after apparently killing 31 of its 40 squirrels by mistake with treatments meant to kill parasites, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Keepers at the Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo treated the animals with anti-parasitic medicine on 4 December as part of a sanitary precaution, while also spraying insecticide over their nest boxes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/japan-zoo-investigates-possible-mass-squirrel-poisoning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of the animals died after they were treated with anti-parasitic medicineA Japanese zoo has launched an investigation after apparently killing 31 of its 40 squirrels by mistake with treatments meant to kill parasites, officials said.Keepers at th&#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":[265,41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/60496","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=60496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60496\/revisions\/60497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}