{"id":118560,"date":"2018-11-12T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118560"},"modified":"2018-11-12T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:09:10","slug":"update-on-the-pythons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/12\/update-on-the-pythons\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the pythons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118532\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118532\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Python-in-Valverde-El-Dia-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El D\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is now known that Silvio Alc\u00e1ntara is the owner of the reticulated pythons that were seized by the Army in Jicom\u00e9, Valverde province when being transferred last week. The snakes measured more than 6 meters. They were taken to the National Zoo where veterinarians reported they were in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>The import of these snakes is banned in the country. The transporters could not present authorization from the Ministry of Environment for the keeping and handling of the snakes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the snakes had been kept in a ranch of his property in Hig\u00fcerito, in the northwestern province of Santiago Rodr\u00edguez. He said he was contemplating opening a zoo and marketing it as a tourist attraction but could not find enough government support.<\/p>\n<p>The snakes were confiscated at the crossing between Esperanza and Navarrete when they were being transported after he donated these to a zoo located in Santiago de los Caballeros owned by former deputy Radhames Fermin.<\/p>\n<p>Alcantara said the snakes were imported around 10 years ago by Dominican biologist Marcelino Hern\u00e1ndez. He said he spent a large amount of money to breed the snakes. He said every 15 days the snakes would eat a small 150 lb baby cow.<\/p>\n<p>Alc\u00e1ntara says he still has a female tiger and a crane on his farm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/11\/10\/541214\/silvio-alcantara-el-dueno-de-las-culebras-incautadas-en-jicome-tambien-tiene-una-tigresa-y-una-grulla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/serpientes-incautadas-en-valverde-tenian-10-anos-en-cautiverio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now known that Silvio Alc\u00e1ntara is the owner of the reticulated pythons that were seized by the Army in Jicom\u00e9, Valverde province when being transferred last week. The snakes measured more than 6 meters. They were taken to the National Zoo where veterinarians reported they were in good condition. The import of these &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/12\/update-on-the-pythons\/\" 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\/118560"}],"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=118560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}