{"id":90539,"date":"2020-09-03T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90539"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:04:16","slug":"sabah-wildlife-dept-puts-to-rest-seriously-injured-monkey-in-sandakan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90539","title":{"rendered":"Sabah wildlife dept puts to rest seriously injured monkey in Sandakan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANDAKAN, Sept 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) euthanised\u00a0a seriously injured proboscis monkey believed to have been hit by a vehicle at Jalan Bambangan Seguntur, Mile 11, near here yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement here today, SWD said the male adult primate was discovered in a terrible state by a senior government&nbsp;officer&nbsp;who was passing by the area at about 8 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The proboscis monkey was found in a very weak condition and was bleeding profusely. It suffered a broken arm and injuries on its legs, left knee and left thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Immediate treatment was given to the primate, but the injuries and bleeding it suffered were serious and there was little chance for it to live;&nbsp;therefore, euthanisation was the only way to end its suffering,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SWD appealed to motorists to be&nbsp;careful when passing the area to prevent such incidents from recurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering that the road is a public area, SWD would not be investigating the incident but would put up signboards to warn of&nbsp;possible appearances of wildlife roaming the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN, Sept 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) euthanised\u00a0a seriously injured proboscis monkey believed to have been hit by a vehicle at Jalan Bambangan Seguntur, Mile 11, near here yesterday. In a statement here today, SWD said the male adult primate was discovered in a terrible state by a senior government&nbsp;officer&nbsp;who was passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":71269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}