{"id":15149,"date":"2021-11-21T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2021-11-21T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T05:46:11","slug":"jaw-bombs-the-deadliest-threat-to-sri-lankas-elephants-are-scaling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka\u2019s elephants, are scaling up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hakkapatas_Victim_Chandima_2-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/>WASGAMUWA, Sri Lanka \u2014 Elephant calves arriving at dusk to drink at the Weheragala reservoir tank in Wasgamuwa National Park can be particularly playful. But one day in September 2020, a lonely young elephant was spotted exhibiting uneasy behavior. After all the other members of its herd had gone back to the wilderness to retire [\u2026]\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2021\/11\/jaw-bombs-the-deadliest-threat-to-sri-lankas-elephants-are-scaling-up\/\">Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka\u2019s elephants, are scaling up<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"hzImg\" style=\"background: none; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px; position: absolute; z-index: 2147483647; visibility: hidden; opacity: 1; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none;\">\n<div id=\"hzImgContainer\" style=\"position: relative;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASGAMUWA, Sri Lanka \u2014 Elephant calves arriving at dusk to drink at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[980,981],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-elephants","tag-sri-lanka","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}