{"id":13883,"date":"2012-08-25T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/s-african-hippo-trapped-in-pool-dies-in-rescue\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:10:52","slug":"s-african-hippo-trapped-in-pool-dies-in-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-hippo-trapped-in-pool-dies-in-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African hippo trapped in pool dies in rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A hippo named Solly trapped<br \/>\nfor three days in a swimming pool at a South African game lodge<br \/>\ndied on Friday in a failed rescue attempt broadcast on<br \/>\nnationwide TV.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Solly, thought to be about five years old, slipped into the<br \/>\npool after being shunned by its pod in Limpopo province, about<br \/>\n160 kms (100 miles) north of Johannesburg. Its legs were not<br \/>\nlong enough to climb out of the pool.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rescue team tried to drain the pool, sedate Solly and<br \/>\nlift him out with a crane but he died in the operation.<br \/>\nAuthorities have yet to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Video of Solly popping his head out of the brown water in<br \/>\nthe pool over the past two days became a staple of TV news<br \/>\nbulletins, making the animal an instant national celebrity.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>TV news channels also broadcast images of the dead<br \/>\nhippopotamus being hoisted out of the pool with a member of the<br \/>\nrescue team standing on the carcass.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It started out as a happy story and now it&#8217;s a tragic<br \/>\nstory. It&#8217;s devastating,&#8221; Ruby Ferreira, manager of the Monate<br \/>\nConservation Lodge, where the hippo slipped into the pool, told<br \/>\nthe SAPA news agency.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A hippo named Solly trapped for three days in a swimming pool at a South African game lodge died on Friday in a failed rescue attempt broadcast on nationwide TV. Solly, thought to be about five years old, slipped into the pool after being shunned by its pod in Limpopo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}