{"id":345479,"date":"2025-12-13T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:11:10","slug":"cataract-operation-saves-banham-zoo-snow-leopards-eyesight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345479\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataract operation saves Banham Zoo snow leopard&#8217;s eyesight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A big cat has undergone surgery to restore her eyesight after zookeepers discovered she had a cataract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The &#8220;relatively unique&#8221; procedure was carried out on Aurora, a three-year-old snow leopard at Banham Zoo in Norfolk, at the end of November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Animal manager Deborah Harris said: &#8220;Procedures on big cats are always a little nerve-racking, especially a long procedure, but thanks to the dedicated care of the keepers and veterinarians, the whole day went smoothly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Snow leopards are listed as vulnerable and the wild population continues to decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big cat has undergone surgery to restore her eyesight after zookeepers discovered she had a cataract. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-345479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}