{"id":330966,"date":"2026-07-06T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:28:19","slug":"asian-elephant-carina-at-busch-gardens-in-tampa-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330966\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian elephant &#8216;Carina&#8217; at Busch Gardens in Tampa has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Busch Gardens said Carina, a 54-year-old Asian elephant at Busch Gardens in Tampa, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Carina was humanely euthanized after her health rapidly declined, Busch Gardens said.<\/p>\n<p>At 54 years old, Carina lived well beyond the average life expectancy of Asian elephants, which is 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>Busch Gardens said guests will miss her silly personality of sticking her tongue to drink from the waterfall instead of using her trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Busch Gardens continues to care for the other members of the herd, including Tina, Simba, and Carina\u2019s adult daughter, Karnaudi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ANNETTE.GUTIERREZ.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida law now requires restaurants to disclose fees upfront<\/p>\n<p>Starting July 1, Florida restaurants must disclose all fees \u2014 including service charges and credit card surcharges \u2014 before customers order.<\/p>\n<p>Florida restaurants are now required to disclose added fees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Busch Gardens said Carina, a 54-year-old Asian elephant at Busch Gardens in Tampa, has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19617,6424,23928,276,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-330966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-busch-gardens","tag-dies","tag-elephant","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}