{"id":214357,"date":"2025-10-21T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:51:08","slug":"clouded-leopards-among-dangerous-animals-living-in-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214357\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouded leopards among dangerous animals living in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  International wildlife charity Born Free found that more than 2,700\u202fdangerous wild animals are being kept with licences in the UK and Northern Ireland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Across Norfolk, 40 wild animals are being kept privately, ranging from clouded leopards to ostriches and wild boar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The two clouded leopards are in Breckland and a black and white ruffed lemur can also be found in the district.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25556244.rare-shore-lark-bird-spotted-norfolk-coast-cley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rare bird with distinctive black &#8216;horns&#8217; spotted on Norfolk coast<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clouded leopards have the largest canine teeth to body size proportion of any animal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A wild boar and an ostrich make up the animals being kept privately in the Broadland area, while 25 blackbucks, a type of antelope, make up the privately kept animals in King&#8217;s Lynn and West Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  North Norfolk houses three tapirs and two camels, while South Norfolk has two savannah cats and three servals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All animals are being kept legally under the Dangerous Animals Act 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International wildlife charity Born Free found that more than 2,700\u202fdangerous wild animals are being kept with licences in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-214357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}