{"id":606601,"date":"2026-05-27T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:53:09","slug":"big-cats-beat-the-heat-with-blood-ice-lollies-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606601\/","title":{"rendered":"Big cats beat the heat with blood ice lollies in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park is hoping Aleks will eventually start to use his pool to help him cool down, but he is yet to go in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nichols said: &#8220;He&#8217;s never seen water other than drinking it so he doesn&#8217;t know that tigers naturally cool down by laying in water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had to make it so he can see the bottom and step in there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our tigers have been with us for years so know to dive in, but he has no idea whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nichols said he was proud of the progress Aleks had made since arriving at his new home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;He&#8217;s slowly acclimatised to his new environment, he&#8217;s engaging with his surroundings, and, crucially, he&#8217;s forming bonds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s started socialising with our other tigers, which is a massive milestone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On top of that, he&#8217;s formed a real friendship with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The park is hoping Aleks will eventually start to use his pool to help him cool down, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-606601","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\/606601","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=606601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}