{"id":964,"date":"2015-07-29T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-10-30T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:57:04","slug":"an-american-dentist-killed-cecil-the-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/2015\/07\/29\/an-american-dentist-killed-cecil-the-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"An American dentist killed Cecil the lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, there was in Zimbabwe a lion known of nearly all the country: Black mane, Cecil.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/104C8\/production\/_84506766_cecillion_paulafrench.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/center>This lion was killed by a &#8220;poacher&#8221;. It was lurd out of the safety of the reserve where it was protected (Hwange National Park), then seriously wounded by a poisoned arrow, and finally shot by the rifle of a tourist.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything dirtier?<\/p>\n<p>The tourist has been tracked and found. He paid $55,000 to leave with the skin and head of the superb animal who was loved and admired by all (bar one). It was an American dentist, <strong>Walter James Palmer<\/strong> (first suspicions were wrongly looking toward a Spanish touist).<\/p>\n<p>Even in his country, he is now reviled. At least, not all the North American are not this kind of a-hole. I specially appreciated Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s reaction on his TV show: He is asking what reason could draw a normal man to such an act: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/29\/9066463\/jimmy-kimmel-cecil-the-lion\">The Vox: Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s emotional monologue about Cecil the lion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let all lion hunters know that they are often out of the law and they are all the dirtiest of the dirtiest, not worth being part of the human society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, there was in Zimbabwe a lion known of nearly all the country: Black mane, Cecil. This lion was killed by a &#8220;poacher&#8221;. It was lurd out of the safety of the reserve where it was protected (Hwange National Park), then seriously wounded by a poisoned arrow, and finally shot by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[120,122,121],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lion","tag-cecil","tag-lion","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}