{"id":593715,"date":"2025-11-25T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593715\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:38:12","slug":"tragic-fate-of-rare-mouflon-captured-by-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593715\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic fate of rare mouflon captured by drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two dead mouflon, tangled together at the base of high cliffs in Troodos were captured in drone footage uploaded to social media by Cyprus-based photographer Bora Markovic.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary observation suggests the animals may have been fighting and accidentally fell into the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Mouflon, known for their striking horns and combative behaviour during mating season, are rare in Cyprus, with present estimates of no more than 3,000 in the wild remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Markovic\u2019s aerial footage captures the dramatic cliffs and serene lake, contrasting sharply with the sombre scene below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is truly heartbreaking,\u201d the forestry department\u2019s Haris Nicolaou commented on the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese animals are rare, and to see them lost in such a way is deeply saddening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two dead mouflon, tangled together at the base of high cliffs in Troodos were captured in drone footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-593715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115612739399347568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}