{"id":415729,"date":"2026-10-01T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:02:10","slug":"lost-african-spurred-tortoise-spotted-at-cape-coral-sports-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415729\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost African spurred tortoise spotted at Cape Coral Sports Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost African spurred tortoise spotted at Cape Coral Sports Complex<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790863330_926_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Firefighters with the Cape Coral Fire Department were alerted to an interesting sight on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Community members pointed them to an African spurred tortoise, or sulcata tortoise, that had made its way to the baseball field.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">CCFD says that if anyone lives in the area and is missing their tortoise, it was hanging out at the Complex located at 1420 Sports Boulevard as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lost African spurred tortoise spotted at Cape Coral Sports Complex CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Firefighters with the Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[71386,1185,102614,209,211,210,164674,25383,2344,104,5990,213,4428,197,14632,3960,88176,221],"class_list":["post-415729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-african","tag-alert","tag-baseball-field","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-sports-complex","tag-community-member","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-firefighter","tag-late-news","tag-phone","tag-sport","tag-thursday-morning","tag-tortoise","tag-wbbh","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415729","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=415729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}