{"id":547233,"date":"2026-04-23T22:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:58:19","slug":"hungry-crocodile-enters-restaurant-and-leaps-over-counter-into-kitchen-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547233\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry crocodile enters restaurant and leaps over counter into kitchen | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hungry crocodile walked into a restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zimbabwe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe<\/a> and leapt up onto a kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted on A&#8217;zambezi River Lodge\u2019s Facebook page on Sunday (19 April) shows the huge reptile wandering inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/victoria-falls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Falls<\/a> restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an early morning visit from an unexpected guest&#8230; He was checking why room service was running late,\u201d the restaurant wrote in the video caption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo rules. No invitation. No reservation. This is the Zambezi \u2014 where wild means wild.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hungry crocodile walked into a restaurant in Zimbabwe and leapt up onto a kitchen counter. Footage posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[186052,12332,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-547233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-aptopix-britain-soccer-premier-league","9":"tag-declan-rice","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547233","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=547233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}