{"id":6919,"date":"2019-10-17T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:40:56","slug":"alipore-zoo-chimpanzee-bites-the-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/alipore-zoo-chimpanzee-bites-the-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Alipore Zoo chimpanzee bites the director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Babu, a chimpanzee in Kolkata&#8217;s Alipore Zoo, has bitten the director of the zoo when he tried to feed him on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The director, Asis Kumar Samanta, said that the cut was just a minor one in his finger and was nothing to worry about. He has taken necessary medications along with an injection following the injury, he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The director said that he is in habit of feeding the primates in the zoo and that he has been bitten by a monkey on earlier occasions. Samanta said that such injuries are only a part of the life in a zoo and that other zookeepers also have to take injections every now and then, adding that it is &#8220;totally normal&#8221;.<br \/>\nVisitors, however are not allowed to feed animals. There are notices placed before every animal enclosure forbidding visitors to feed or irritate animals. Violating the order can result in six months&#8217; imprisonment and\/or a fine of Rs. 2000.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babu, a chimpanzee in Kolkata&#8217;s Alipore Zoo, has bitten the director of the zoo when he tried to feed him on Wednesday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":6920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}