{"id":4101,"date":"2021-09-08T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1346388"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:26:14","slug":"tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger King zookeeper Erik Cowie dies aged 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Cowie was Head Keeper at Joe Exotic&#8217;s G.W. Exotic Animal Zoo for five years. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 08 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Erik Cowie, one of the zookeepers who featured in Netflix documentary Tiger King, died on 3rd September aged 53, <a href=\"\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/tiger-king-zookeeper-found-dead-in-brooklyn-officials\/3259455\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">NBC\u2019s New York affiliate<\/a> confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death has yet to be determined after he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment bedroom at 5:30pm local time, according to NBC News 4 New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cowie was Head Keeper at Joe Exotic\u2019s infamous\u00a0G.W. Exotic Animal Zoo in Wynnewoo, where he worked for five years.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cowie was Head Keeper at Joe Exotic&#8217;s G.W. Exotic Animal Zoo for five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4102,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53.png",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53-768x432.png",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53-1024x576.png",800,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53-1536x864.png",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/tiger-king-zookeeper-erik-cowie-dies-aged-53.png",1920,1080,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Cowie was Head Keeper at Joe Exotic's G.W. Exotic Animal Zoo for five years.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}