{"id":283306,"date":"2025-11-25T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283306\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:03:09","slug":"tragic-fate-of-rare-mouflon-captured-by-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283306\/","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":283307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-283306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}