{"id":121,"date":"2022-12-08T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/?p=121"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:26:39","slug":"ex-polar-bear-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/2022\/12\/08\/ex-polar-bear-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Polar Bear Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"zoo-staff-left-heavy-hearted-as-homer-the-bear-dies-at-16-years-old\">Zoo staff left Heavy-Hearted as Homer The Bear dies at 16 years old <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Homer the Bear dies after his last meal around 7 am this morning. Zookeeper Sara N. Getty found him floating in the pool after his feeding. Homer was the oldest of three with Mackenzie at 10 years and Yukon at 9 years of age. Both Mackenzie and Yukon were removed from the exhibit to be monitored by the veterinary staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Homer was a very curious and playful polar bear and we will miss him terribly,&#8221; said Sara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been other animals that had lost their lives previous to Homer. Regina a 10-year-old bobcat died of renal failure last week and two weeks ago, Kenya a 6-year-old giraffe died when her neck broke while her horns got stuck in her stall. Senior staff veterinarian, Shanda Lear said, &#8220;The zoo will perform a necropsy to try and determine the cause of death. The results will not be available for several weeks.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoo director Chris P. Bacon stated, &#8220;We will do everything in our power to determine how this bear died. Animal welfare and the preservation of our species are our primary goals here at the zoo.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoo staff left Heavy-Hearted as Homer The Bear dies at 16 years old Homer the Bear dies after his last meal around 7 am this morning. Zookeeper Sara N. Getty found him floating in the pool after his feeding. Homer was the oldest of three with Mackenzie at 10 years and Yukon at 9 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}