{"id":111027,"date":"2018-03-28T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111027"},"modified":"2018-03-28T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:10:43","slug":"dominican-tree-frog-travels-to-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/28\/dominican-tree-frog-travels-to-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican tree frog travels to the United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111018\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111018\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-Frog-Wikimedia-Commons-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A tiny tropical rainforest frog survived a trip of more than 4,000 miles to the United Kingdom, The Independent of Ireland reports. The tiny frog was found on a bunch of bananas in a Blackburn branch of Tesco Supermarket and a supermarket worker, unsure of what to do with the amphibian discovery, called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe little tree frog was confined inside a bag of bananas so we asked the worker to make some tiny air holes in the plastic and add some water for moisture and keep him confined until we could attend,\u201d animal collection officer John Greaves said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amphibian must have had quite the shock when he emerged in a Lancashire supermarket considering he\u2019s used to more tropical climates usually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/world-news\/and-finally\/tesco-worker-found-rainforest-tree-frog-in-bunch-of-bananas-36749056.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>28 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny tropical rainforest frog survived a trip of more than 4,000 miles to the United Kingdom, The Independent of Ireland reports. The tiny frog was found on a bunch of bananas in a Blackburn branch of Tesco Supermarket and a supermarket worker, unsure of what to do with the amphibian discovery, called the Royal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/28\/dominican-tree-frog-travels-to-the-united-kingdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}