{"id":242447,"date":"2025-10-07T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=242447"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:43:42","slug":"many-exotic-animals-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/many-exotic-animals-in-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Many exotic animals in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242513\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oso-Hormiguero-Diario-Libre.png 1780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Out in the eastern province of La Altagracia, a man was driving his children to school and his wife to work when he came across a very exotic animal, an ant-eater, wandering the streets of the municipality of Veron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, the man called the authorities at the National Zoo in Santo Domingo, and the animal is now under their care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the National Zoo there are a pair of giant ant-eaters named \u201cHor-acio\u201d and \u201cHor-tencia\u201d and their new baby girl \u201cHor-qu\u00eddia\u201d (Orchid in Spanish). The yet-to-be-named ant-eater is of a different species than these giant ant-eaters and is of one generally found in Central America and parts of South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the authorities, the animal is not listed on any invoice for exotic animals permitted into the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/planeta\/medioambiente\/2025\/10\/02\/osTheo-hormiguero-encontrado-en-rd-permanecera-en-el-zoologico-nacional\/3264808\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/planeta\/medioambiente\/2025\/10\/04\/casi-200-animales-exoticos-han-ingresado-a-rd-entre-2024-y-2025\/3266243\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 October 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out in the eastern province of La Altagracia, a man was driving his children to school and his wife to work when he came across a very exotic animal, an ant-eater, wandering the streets of the municipality of Veron. Eventually, the man called the authorities at the National Zoo in Santo Domingo, and the animal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/many-exotic-animals-in-the-dominican-republic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242447"}],"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=242447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242514,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242447\/revisions\/242514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}