{"id":5497,"date":"2019-06-30T22:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T22:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2019-06-30T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T22:21:59","slug":"mesker-park-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"Mesker Park Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a great visit to the Evansville Zoo on Thursday.\u00a0 They had animals we&#8217;d never seen at any other zoo, including this Barasingha.\u00a0 It looked pretty elk-ish to me, but the sign said that it is one of the few zoos in the country with a breeding program for this particular animal, because the males are so aggressive.\u00a0 Luckily this one was pretty docile while we were there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6959-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And most of the animals were very active.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen a rhino in the water before &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever even seen one not lying down!\u00a0 The keeper told us they&#8217;d had\u00a0 to remove the horn due to health issues, but it is in the process of growing back.\u00a0 Very cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6973-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great visit to the Evansville Zoo on Thursday.\u00a0 They had animals we&#8217;d never seen at any other zoo, including this Barasingha.\u00a0 It looked pretty elk-ish to me, but the sign said that it is one of the few zoos in the country with a breeding program for this particular animal, because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}