{"id":41179,"date":"2018-01-01T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41179"},"modified":"2018-01-01T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:35:11","slug":"stunning-white-tiger-lahore-zoos-latest-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41179","title":{"rendered":"Stunning white tiger Lahore Zoo&#8217;s latest attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE Jan 01 (TNS):<\/strong> A white tiger has been purchased by the Lahore Zoo, taking the number of white tigers in the zoo to five.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year-old white tiger was flown in from Egypt Monday morning and then taken to the zoo, said authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The male tiger was purchased for Rs5.3 million, the zoo authorities confirmed, adding that the funds were generated by the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, a female white tiger and three cubs are present at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>While the zoo is actively seeking to attract more people and acquiring more animals, not enough attention is paid to the overall upkeep of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>On November 30, a male cheetah\u00a0passed away due to diarrhoea after spending just 30 days at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old cheetah and its female were imported from South Africa on October 29 last year. However, the female cheetah had died earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The male cheetah was diagnosed with diarrhoea and despite getting treatment by experts from the University of Veterinary and Animal Science (UVAS), it didn&#8217;t survive.<\/p>\n<p>The death of the animals raised a fresh wave of questions against the zoo management. In a mere 14 months, the zoo had lost its female elephant, Suzi, a giraffe and lion cubs, among other animals.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking over the issue, Lahore Zoo Director Hassan Ali had said that the management is aware of its responsibilities. Many measures have been adopted to provide a conducive environment to the animals, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Jan 01 (TNS): A white tiger has been purchased by the Lahore Zoo, taking the number of white tigers in the zoo to five. The three-year-old white tiger was flown in from Egypt Monday morning and then taken to the zoo, said authorities. The male tiger was purchased for Rs5.3 million, the zoo authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[533,157,589],"class_list":["post-41179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entertainment","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41181,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions\/41181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}