{"id":17988,"date":"2016-08-24T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17988"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:40:59","slug":"marineland-disputes-claim-by-activist-that-walrus-is-in-ill-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/marineland-disputes-claim-by-activist-that-walrus-is-in-ill-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland disputes claim by activist that walrus is in ill health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/6820762-marineland-disputes-claim-by-activist-that-walrus-is-in-ill-health\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phil Demers was disheartened when he was sent a video of Zeus, one of Marineland\u2019s walruses last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s lost hundreds of pounds,\u201d Demers said. \u201cHe should weigh up to 3,000 pounds. I\u2019d be shocked if he weighed 1,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the video in question, Zeus can be seen in what has become a rare appearance at the park. The 13-year-old walrus moves slowly for a few moments before settling near the edge of the water in the park\u2019s show theatre&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Marineland, meanwhile, said the concerns for Zeus\u2019 health were unfounded and that like all of the park\u2019s animals, it receives proper veterinary care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niagara Falls Review &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/22\/marineland-defends-condition-of-walrus\">Marineland defends condition of walrus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Phil Demers was disheartened when he was sent a video of Zeus, one of Marineland\u2019s walruses last week. \u201cHe\u2019s lost hundreds of pounds,\u201d Demers said. \u201cHe should weigh up to 3,000 pounds. I\u2019d be shocked if he weighed 1,000.\u201d In the video in question, Zeus can be seen in what has&#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":[10501,10358,10502,11140,11139,67,1139,451,3500,7881,11138,5750,11137],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-activist","tag-animal","tag-condition","tag-health","tag-ill-health","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-park","tag-phil-demers","tag-veterinary-care","tag-walrus","tag-zeus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988","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=17988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17989,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}