{"id":16799,"date":"2014-08-20T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:14:05","slug":"marinelands-killer-whale-is-ill-animal-rights-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/marinelands-killer-whale-is-ill-animal-rights-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland&#8217;s killer whale is ill, animal rights group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/marineland-s-killer-whale-is-ill-animal-rights-group-says-1.2725870?cmp=rss\">CBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An animal rights group says the killer whale at Marineland appears to be sick, but officials insist that Kiska, a mainstay of the Niagara Falls, Ont., water park for many years, is in good health.<\/p>\n<p>Orca United recently sent CBC News photos which it says show signs of a troubling condition known as \u201cpeanut head\u201d \u2014 an indentation near the blowhole that is a sign of severe weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News was given access to the park and Kiska. Her trainers say she has \u201cgood girth\u201d and eats between 40 and 55 kilograms of fish a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC News: An animal rights group says the killer whale at Marineland appears to be sick, but officials insist that Kiska, a mainstay of the Niagara Falls, Ont., water park for many years, is in good health. Orca United recently sent CBC News photos which it says show signs of a troubling condition known&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[8251,5996,1523,5744,67],"class_list":["post-16799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-animal-rights","tag-cbc-news","tag-killer-whale","tag-kiska","tag-marineland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}