{"id":38387,"date":"2021-07-17T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38387"},"modified":"2021-07-17T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T23:05:24","slug":"joshi-is-swapping-life-in-captivity-for-a-new-start-in-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38387","title":{"rendered":"Joshi is swapping life in captivity for a new start in the jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Thirteen-year-old Joshi has spent his entire life in a British safari park, but he&#8217;s now being given a new start &#8211; and family &#8211; in the jungle of Congo-Brazzaville. He was chosen to make the journey because of his calm and gentle nature.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Learning to live in the wild isn&#8217;t straightforward so he&#8217;s being trained by two young wild-born gorillas, orphaned when their mothers were killed for bushmeat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Amos Courage of the Aspinall Foundation says it&#8217;s hoped he may also be able to steal a few female gorillas from another group: &#8220;because mild-mannered gorillas are attractive to females too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Janet Ball<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-57854071\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen-year-old Joshi has spent his entire life in a British safari park, but he&#8217;s now being given a new start &#8211; and family &#8211; in the jungle of Congo-Brazzaville. He was chosen to make the journey because of his calm and gentle nature. Learning to live in the wild isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119423548_p09pj2gb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}