{"id":678,"date":"2010-11-21T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-11-14T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T13:59:29","slug":"%e2%80%98big-boy%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98leonardo%e2%80%99-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/2010\/11\/21\/%e2%80%98big-boy%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98leonardo%e2%80%99-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Boy\u2019 and \u2018Leonardo\u2019 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018Big Boy\u2019<\/em> and <em>\u2018Leonardo\u2019<\/em> are the names of two of the GPS-collared desert lions living in Namibia under the constant surveillance of animal researchers. These big males fell under the bullets of trophy hunters, even with collars and in a protected area.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity, but these hunters will kill anything and anywhere. In this case, this will be a major blow to the small population of desert lions (a specific adaptation of the African lion to dry weather conditions).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-679\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lion_killer.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lion_killer\" width=\"635\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-full wp-image-679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lion_killer.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lion_killer-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hunting Ventures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bushwarriors.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/old-boy-and-leonardo-killed-is-trophy-hunting-wiping-out-namibias-desert-lions\/\">Bush Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Big Boy\u2019 and \u2018Leonardo\u2019 are the names of two of the GPS-collared desert lions living in Namibia under the constant surveillance of animal researchers. These big males fell under the bullets of trophy hunters, even with collars and in a protected area. It&#8217;s a pity, but these hunters will kill anything and anywhere. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,122,87],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lion","tag-hunt","tag-lion","tag-namibia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}