{"id":128655,"date":"2025-09-08T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:09:08","slug":"lioness-takes-selfies-while-playing-with-hidden-camera-at-oregon-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128655\/","title":{"rendered":"Lioness takes selfies while playing with hidden camera at Oregon Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PORTLAND, Ore. \u2013 Fearsome lions recently showed their playful \u2013 and photogenic \u2013 side at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/oregon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oregon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oregon<\/a> Zoo, where keepers placed a hidden camera in their habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a video shared on Wednesday, a lioness appears to discover the camera on a bed of hay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She then proceeds to paw and chew on the device, as it continued to film the curious kitty.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A close-up view of the lioness.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1415f7f65e702106dccabbe5a7aa008c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A close-up view of the lioness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The camera got close-up shots of sharp teeth, spindly whiskers and even a few paw beans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And there were a few ultra-close shots of what the inside of a lion&#8217;s mouth looks like as the she tried to eat the camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/how-to-watch-fox-weather-on-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How To Watch Fox Weather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How To Watch Fox Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She, along with the other lions, are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/africa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Serengeti;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Serengeti<\/a> exhibit at Oregon Zoo, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Original article source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/lion-selfie-oregon-zoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch: Lioness takes selfies while playing with hidden camera at Oregon Zoo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch: Lioness takes selfies while playing with hidden camera at Oregon Zoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2013 Fearsome lions recently showed their playful \u2013 and photogenic \u2013 side at the Oregon Zoo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,70598,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-128655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-oregon-zoo","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}