{"id":843321,"date":"2026-09-10T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843321\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:38:09","slug":"three-legged-doe-known-as-tripod-fawn-found-dead-in-machiasport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843321\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-legged doe known as Tripod, fawn found dead in Machiasport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MACHIASPORT, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A three-legged doe known as Tripod was found dead over the weekend along with a fawn after both were hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The doe had lost one of its legs in a hunting accident in Machiasport but was still able to get around. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Amateur wildlife photographer Tanya Decatur befriended the deer after photographing the doe in her backyard. Her photo of tripod and here three fawns went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Decatur said Tripod had taken in at least one of the fawns after another doe was struck by a car in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Decatur found tripod and a fawn dead in her driveway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/08\/17\/three-legged-deer-becomes-source-inspiration-maine-photographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/08\/17\/three-legged-deer-becomes-source-inspiration-maine-photographer\/\">WABI first brought you their story on Aug. 17.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACHIASPORT, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A three-legged doe known as Tripod was found dead over the weekend along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[357071,79,357070,201],"class_list":["post-843321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-machiasport","tag-science","tag-tripod-deer","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}