{"id":270384,"date":"2026-08-22T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270384\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:09","slug":"philly-zoo-mourns-makini-a-17-year-old-african-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270384\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Zoo mourns Makini, a 17-year-old African lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 22, 2026 6:16PM<\/p>\n<p>Philly Zoo mourns Makini, a 17-year-old African Lion<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The Philadelphia Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its beloved lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Makini, a 17-and-a-half-year-old African lion, was humanely euthanized after severe arthritis left him weak and struggling to walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Makini spent most of his life at the zoo and fathered four cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The zoo says it&#8217;s now working with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums on the future of lions there.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 22, 2026 6:16PM Philly Zoo mourns Makini, a 17-year-old African Lion PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113997,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-270384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-113997","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}