{"id":13190,"date":"2022-02-01T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13190"},"modified":"2022-02-01T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:17:21","slug":"captured-wild-elephant-dies-before-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13190","title":{"rendered":"Captured wild elephant dies before relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JERTIH,&nbsp;Feb 1 &nbsp;&#8212; The male elephant captured in&nbsp;Kampung Padang Tapong, here on Saturday&nbsp;was found dead yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terengganu Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) director&nbsp;Loo Kean Seong said the elephant, aged 15, died at about 2.30 pm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI received the sad news from a staff member working in the field and a post-mortem has been done to determine the cause of death.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png\" alt=\"elephant\" class=\"wp-image-13191\" width=\"503\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png 579w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31-182x100.png 182w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31-350x192.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI am waiting for the post-mortem report. The elephant will be buried at the spot where it was chained,\u201d<\/em> Loo said when contacted by Bernama today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the elephant, which weighed about two tonnes, was supposed to have been relocated&nbsp;with the help of tame elephants tomorrow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhilitan sprung into action after receiving complaints from villagers that the wild bull elephant had been roaming the village of late.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, the department subdued&nbsp;it with&nbsp;tranquilizers&nbsp;before it was chained to a tree pending relocation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news.php?id=2048577\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERTIH,&nbsp;Feb 1 &nbsp;&#8212; The male elephant captured in&nbsp;Kampung Padang Tapong, here on Saturday&nbsp;was found dead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10891,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-local"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31-300x165.png",300,165,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-20.12.31.png",579,318,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=10891\" rel=\"category\">Environment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a>","tag_info":"Local","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}