{"id":168,"date":"2021-07-06T07:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2021-10-11T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:35:19","slug":"asiatic-lion-at-gir-national-park-welcomes-monsoon-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/asiatic-lion-at-gir-national-park-welcomes-monsoon-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiatic Lion at Gir National Park Welcomes Monsoon. Video Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gir_lion.jpg\" alt=\"gir national park lions safari\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gir_lion.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gir_lion-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>News Update: An old video an Asiatic lion from Gir National Park in Gujarat has gone viral once again in which lions can seen welcoming monsoon season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short video clip was first uploaded on Twitter by Praveen Kaswan of the Indian Forest Services in July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video lion can be seen clearly drinking water from a puddle on a path by the forest. A car was spotted in the background as the video appears to have made by a tourist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The King of the Road! <br>Incredible sighting of an Asiatic lion welcoming the monsoon near Gir, Gujarat India ??. Let\u2019s respect Mother Earth!<br><br>Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParveenKaswan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ParveenKaswan<\/a> <br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2K5J4TIpl4\">pic.twitter.com\/2K5J4TIpl4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErikSolheim\/status\/1282846051200892935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year in 2020, Twitter user Erik Solheim had posted the video writing the caption \u201cThe King of the Road! Incredible sighting of an Asiatic Lion Welcoming the Monsoon near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/\">Gir<\/a>, Gujarat India. Let\u2019s respect Mother Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Update: An old video an Asiatic lion from Gir National Park in Gujarat has gone viral once again in which lions can seen welcoming monsoon season&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,22],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gir-news","tag-asiatic-lions-in-gir","tag-gir-asiatic-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girnationalpark.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}