{"id":8616,"date":"2018-12-31T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/lion-shot-dead-after-escaping-conservatory-and-killing-an-intern\/"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:22:00","slug":"lion-shot-dead-after-escaping-conservatory-and-killing-an-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/lion-shot-dead-after-escaping-conservatory-and-killing-an-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Shot Dead After Escaping Conservatory and Killing an Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A lion was shot and killed in an attempt to save an intern\u00a0following an escape\u00a0from\u00a0its enclosure at\u00a0a North Carolina nature conservatory Sunday.\u00a0Alexandra Black, 22, recently graduated from\u00a0Indiana University Bloomington, and worked two weeks as a\u00a0college\u00a0intern for the Conservators&#8217; Center in Burlington. Black was fatally attacked after the lion managed to flee when a &#8220;husbandry team, led by a professionally trained animal keeper, was carrying out a routine enclosure cleaning,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/killed-lion-escapes-enclosure-north-carolina-animal-center\/story?id=60080172\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a statement from the Caswell County Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\" class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Just arriving in Burlington &#8211; where a lion at the Conservators\u2019 Center mauled a worker to death today. We\u2019re being told the animal somehow left a locked area. The nonprofit is closed until further notice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ABC11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#ABC11<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BmcWEsCcvT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BmcWEsCcvT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Elaina Athans (@AthansABC11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AthansABC11\/status\/1079476898466590725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">December 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several attempts were made to tranquilize the lion\u00a0named Matthai, who\u00a0\u201cquickly\u201d killed\u00a0Black after leaving what was believed to be a locked space. The lion was\u00a0fatally shot in order to allow emergency workers to retrieve Alexandra&#8217;s\u00a0body.\u00a0The Conservators&#8217; Center responded to the incident\u00a0in a statement acknowledging\u00a0how they were\u00a0&#8220;devastated by the loss of a human life,&#8221; and would be\u00a0closed until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Conservators&#8217; Center posted a photo on Friday\u00a0of Daisy,\u00a0one of the center&#8217;s 15\u00a0African lions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FConservatorsCenter%2Fposts%2F10155818425091232%3A0&amp;width=500\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" width=\"500\" height=\"633\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"wrap-ignore lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway to determine\u00a0how the lion escaped from the center.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2018\/12\/lion-shot-dead-after-escaping-conservatory-and-killing-an-intern\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lion was shot and killed in an attempt to save an intern\u00a0following an escape\u00a0from\u00a0its enclosure at\u00a0a North Carolina nature conservatory Sunday.\u00a0Alexandra Black, 22, recently graduated from\u00a0Indiana University Bloomington, and worked two weeks as a\u00a0college\u00a0intern for the Conservators&#8217; Center in Burlington. Black was fatally attacked after the lion managed to flee when a &#8220;husbandry team, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,111,270,5,2800,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-featured","category-lion","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}