{"id":17278,"date":"2016-01-27T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17278"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:30:50","slug":"hidden-camera-footage-sparks-angry-response-from-marineland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/hidden-camera-footage-sparks-angry-response-from-marineland\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden camera footage sparks angry response from Marineland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/01\/26\/hidden-camera-footage-sparks-angry-response-from-marineland\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new video released by international non-profit group Last Chance for Animals exposes &#8220;inhumane treatment&#8221; of beluga whales at the park, according to a group spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The five-minute clip is comprised of hidden-camera footage shot over five months by an LCA investigator hired as a Marineland summer employee last year. It documents what the group calls &#8220;insufficient care,&#8221; showing belugas bunched together, covered in scars and skin conditions. One young calf named Gia, separated from her mother, is shown in an isolation pool &#8220;where her condition deteriorated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adam Wilson, LCA&#8217;s director of investigations, said the employee shot &#8220;discreet&#8221; footage with high definition cameras. The majority of footage focussed on the park&#8217;s 46 belugas, the largest population of captive belugas in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A new video released by international non-profit group Last Chance for Animals exposes &#8220;inhumane treatment&#8221; of beluga whales at the park, according to a group spokesman. The five-minute clip is comprised of hidden-camera footage shot over five months by an LCA investigator hired as a Marineland summer employee last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[831,10030,2632,10509,10507,10508,10505,10506,67,1139],"class_list":["post-17278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-beluga-whale","tag-calf","tag-cameras","tag-discreet-footage","tag-gia","tag-investigation","tag-last-chance-for-animals","tag-lca","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls-review"],"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\/17278","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=17278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}