{"id":671726,"date":"2026-07-03T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671726\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:41:09","slug":"one-of-the-uks-oldest-lions-dies-at-longleat-safari-park-aged-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671726\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the UK&#8217;s oldest lions dies at Longleat safari park aged 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the oldest lions in the UK has died just months before her 21st birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jasira was matriarch of one of two prides at Longleat safari park in Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Several of our lions have or are reaching this grand age, and whilst it is always sad to lose an animal, we are very proud that she lived as long as she did, as her age is a testament to the care she received here,&#8221; said Amy Waller, Longleat&#8217;s carnivore team manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longleat, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn4vjxmn018o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is celebrating 60 years<\/a> since it introduced the first drive-through safari outside of Africa, also revealed it is planning to add another pride of lions to the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the oldest lions in the UK has died just months before her 21st birthday. Jasira was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-671726","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\/671726","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=671726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}