{"id":3209,"date":"2010-04-21T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:15","slug":"brits-seek-to-save-sheep-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/04\/brits-seek-to-save-sheep-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"BRITS SEEK TO SAVE SHEEP-PIGS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/discovered-species\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1394\" title=\"discovered-species\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/discovered-species.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ynews\/20100420\/ts_ynews\/ynews_ts1710\" target=\"_\">Yahoo News<\/a> has reported that in a bizarre twist on natural selection the Balkan states are now home to a curly-tailed pig covered in a sheep-like wool coat now known as a &#8220;sheep-pig.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The animal in question, native to Austria and Hungary, is known in zoological circles as a Mangalitsa hogs. These apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hybrid-beasts\/\" target=\"_\">HYBRID-BEASTS<\/a>, also known as &#8220;wooly pigs&#8221; or &#8220;curly-haired hogs,&#8221; are considered a delicacy in some circles because of their very high-quality fat and marbled, juicy meat. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3213\" title=\"Mangalitsa2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa2-300x214.jpg?resize=300%2C214\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>These unique creatures are bordering on extinction, so, in an effort to preserve the species, the Tropical Wings Zoo in Essex, England, just took in three of the rare creatures \u2014 a male and two females \u2014 as part of an education and breeding program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News has reported that in a bizarre twist on natural selection the Balkan states are now home to a curly-tailed pig covered in a sheep-like wool coat now known as a &#8220;sheep-pig.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1111,1121,202,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-3209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hybrid-beasts","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sheep-pigs","11":"tag-wooly-hog"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa1.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10336,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/10336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}