Before his rescue and treatment, the tiger was dehydrated, infested with parasites and exhausted, as well as having gastrointestinal, liver and kidney issues, the park said.<\/p>\n
In October, Nichols said the park was waiting for vets to check Aleks was healthy enough for the long journey across Europe. <\/p>\n
On Friday, he said: “We are at the stage where all we need is the dimensions of the carrying crate for Aleks so a vehicle can be allocated and a date.”<\/p>\n
He said the park expected to be given a date “imminently” for when Aleks will be starting his journey across Europe.<\/p>\n
“I would say within the next three weeks he will be on the road here,” he added.<\/p>\n
Aleks will be driven from Ukraine through Poland and northern Europe and then from Dover to his new home at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park.<\/p>\n
When he arrives, Aleks will go through a three-stage process to get him settled – initially in an indoor closure with a sleeping area, playroom and feeding room.<\/p>\n
With veterinary help, he will move to an outdoor enclosure before joining other tigers at the park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before his rescue and treatment, the tiger was dehydrated, infested with parasites and exhausted, as well as having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-386623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386623","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=386623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}