{"id":743712,"date":"2022-01-10T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/look-mysterious-creature-spotted-in-zoo-enclosure-turns-out-to-be-toy-crocodile\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:13:34","slug":"look-mysterious-creature-spotted-in-zoo-enclosure-turns-out-to-be-toy-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/look-mysterious-creature-spotted-in-zoo-enclosure-turns-out-to-be-toy-crocodile\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: &#039;Mysterious creature&#039; spotted in zoo enclosure turns out to be toy crocodile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mysterious-creature-spotted-in-zoo-enclosure-turns-out-to-be-toy-crocodile.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Officials at a Welsh zoo said a &#8220;mysterious creature&#8221; spotted swimming in the banded mongoose enclosure was retrieved by keepers and identified as a toy crocodile.<\/p>\n<p>The Folly Farm Adventure Park &amp; Zoo in Kilgetty, Wales, said in a Facebook post that a weekend visitor to the facility alerted staff to a &#8220;mysterious creature&#8221; in the banded mongoose exhibit.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Was it a miniature Loch Ness Monster?&#8221; the Facebook post said. &#8220;A mysterious water lizard?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zookeepers were sent to capture the unidentified enclosure invader and &#8220;breathed a little sigh of relief&#8221; when they identified the animal as a toy crocodile that apparently had been dropped by a zoo visitor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It did give us all a laugh this gray Monday morning,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Officials at a Welsh zoo said a &#8220;mysterious creature&#8221; spotted swimming in the banded mongoose enclosure was retrieved by keepers and identified as a toy crocodile. The Folly Farm Adventure Park &amp; Zoo in Kilgetty, Wales, said in a Facebook post that a weekend visitor to the facility alerted staff to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}