{"id":337974,"date":"2026-07-12T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337974\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:01:05","slug":"the-tallahassee-museums-latest-guest-animal-is-a-feline-who-loves-to-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337974\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee Museum&#8217;s latest guest animal is a feline who loves to fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallahassee Museum held its annual Swamp Stomp music event on Saturday, July 11. It seems the performers weren&#8217;t the only Museum attraction.<br \/>Some of the area&#8217;s best bands and solo performers were on the Museum&#8217;s stage as well-known Tallahassee singer-songwriter Del Suggs played master of ceremonies.<br \/>&#8220;This is the 48th Annual Summer Swamp Stomp! It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been going on for all these years&#8230;&#8221; <br \/>Nearby, the Museum was welcoming its latest guest animal: a rare and exotic feline that Critter Curator Suzie Buzzo says can obtain a fish dinner without having to open a can of cat food.<br \/>&#8220;Marina&#8217;s a fishing cat and they come from South and Southeast Asia.&#8221;<br \/>While visitors watched, Marina was diving into the habitat pond and coming up with mouthfuls of minnows. Not much bigger than a domestic house cat, she&#8217;ll be the Museum&#8217;s guest animal for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee Museum held its annual Swamp Stomp music event on Saturday, July 11. It seems the performers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-337974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337974","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=337974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}