{"id":3159,"date":"2012-08-24T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2012-08-24T10:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:10:54","slug":"stupid-animal-trick-flying-sheep-and-deer-among-hawaiis-islands-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/stupid-animal-trick-flying-sheep-and-deer-among-hawaiis-islands-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Animal Trick: Flying Sheep and Deer Among Hawaii&#8217;s Islands &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/23\/stupid-animal-trick-flying-sheep-and-deer-among-hawaiis-islands\/\">Stupid Animal Trick: Flying Sheep and Deer Among Hawaii&#8217;s Islands &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"animal introductions by helicopter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mauinews.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/564191\/Conservationists-upset-that-sheep-shuttled-to-Maui.html?nav=5031%22\">From the Maui News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A helicopter pilot is pleading guilty to illegally flying deer from Maui to the Big Island, shedding light on a mystery that has been bewildering Hawaii: how did axis deer, an animal that can\u2019t swim across the ocean, get to another island? But now federal authorities say the people behind the scheme also took several mouflon sheep from the Big Island and flew them to Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Neither axis deer nor mouflon sheep are native to Hawaii and don\u2019t have natural predators here. Their presence has damaged fragile native ecosystems and farms on the islands where they\u2019ve become established. The alleged animal smugglers took the sheep to a Maui hunting ranch, and apparently didn\u2019t release them into the wild. Even so, the sheep\u2019s arrival on Maui for the first time deeply concerns conservationists who fear that the animals could escape or give others the idea to bring over more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stupid Animal Trick: Flying Sheep and Deer Among Hawaii&#8217;s Islands &#8211; NYTimes.com. &nbsp; From the Maui News: A helicopter pilot is pleading guilty to illegally flying deer from Maui to the Big Island, shedding light on a mystery that has been bewildering Hawaii: how did axis deer, an animal that can\u2019t swim across the ocean, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/stupid-animal-trick-flying-sheep-and-deer-among-hawaiis-islands-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid Animal Trick: Flying Sheep and Deer Among Hawaii&#8217;s Islands &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}