{"id":34287,"date":"2025-07-30T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34287\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:52:08","slug":"killer-hippopotamus-troubling-adamawa-communities-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34287\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer hippopotamus troubling Adamawa communities captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eA hippopotamus which has been troubling some communities in the southern part of Adamawa State has been captured.<\/p>\n<p>The animal which was responsible for the death of a young man in Banjiram village, Guyuk Local Government Area, was captured by some youths in neighbouring Shelleng Local Government Area, after it strayed into the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe hippopotamus was said to have been displaced by flood from its natural habitat near the Kiri Dam in Shelleng.<\/p>\n<p>The flood had led to rivers overflowing their banks, upsetting households and animals alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u200eResidents had raised the alarm, leading to efforts to capture the hippopotamus after it killed a young man in Banjiram on July 28, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200eA hippopotamus which has been troubling some communities in the southern part of Adamawa State has been captured.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[20489,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-34287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-adamawa","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287","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=34287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}