{"id":1024806,"date":"2022-03-17T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/watch-herd-of-escaped-bison-rounded-up-in-maine\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:17:40","slug":"watch-herd-of-escaped-bison-rounded-up-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/watch-herd-of-escaped-bison-rounded-up-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Herd of escaped bison rounded up in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Herd-of-escaped-bison-rounded-up-in-Maine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7DZBMZmbRiQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bison wander around Aroostook County after escaping farm\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7DZBMZmbRiQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 17 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Police in Maine said officers spent multiple hours working to capture a herd of bison that escaped from a farm and wandered over a mile to a nearby town.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle Police Departments said 11 bison escaped from a private farm in Fort Fairfield on Wednesday morning and the animals wandered over a mile to Quoggy Jo Ski Center in Presque Isle.\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the bison was killed in a crash with a truck. The vehicle&#8217;s driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 10 bison were rounded up about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, after wandering to a wooded area near the Nordic Heritage Center.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the owner of the animals believes the bison&#8217;s escape may have been aided by another large animal damaging the farm&#8217;s fence from the outside. The investigation into the escape is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17 (UPI) &#8212; Police in Maine said officers spent multiple hours working to capture a herd of bison that escaped from a farm and wandered over a mile to a nearby town. The Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle Police Departments said 11 bison escaped from a private farm in Fort Fairfield on Wednesday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}