{"id":9520,"date":"2018-11-08T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/hundreds-of-buffaloes-drown-fleeing-lions-in-botswana\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:26:17","slug":"hundreds-of-buffaloes-drown-in-chobe-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/hundreds-of-buffaloes-drown-in-chobe-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Buffaloes Drown in Chobe River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswanian authorities estimate that around 400 Buffaloes were drowned after being chased into the Chobe river\u00a0near the border with Namibia. Reports indicate that the herd was unusually large and when chased by Lions the ensuing panic probably contributed to the deaths. Apparently,\u00a0events like this are not that uncommon but are rarely on this scale. The meat was collected for consumption by the local community means that although sad at least they were not left to rot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9544\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9544\" class=\"wp-image-9544 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo-624x426.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Buffalo-750x512.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrzej Kubik\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswanian authorities estimate that around 400 Buffaloes were drowned after being chased into the Chobe river\u00a0near the border with Namibia. Reports indicate that the herd was unusually large and when chased by Lions the ensuing panic probably contributed to the deaths. Apparently,\u00a0events like this are not that uncommon but are rarely on this scale. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105,104],"class_list":["post-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-botswana","tag-buffalo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}