{"id":309,"date":"2016-01-21T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/?p=309"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:18:12","slug":"red-junglefowl-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/2016\/01\/21\/red-junglefowl-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Junglefowl in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postdoc Hoa Nguyen-Phuc and I traveled to Tennessee to the property of a gentleman (Mr. Don Shadow) who has been one of the more successful people to keep Red Junglefowl in captivity. Through the contacts and great help of Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin ( professor emeritus at University of Georgia), we were able to coordinate the transfer of these birds so we can attempt to establish our own colony here. It was a tremendous excitement for me to see these birds again, which I have only seen in the wild in India. Hoa, who has extensive experience with wild junglefowl, is taking a lead role in making sure we are successful in our plans.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures<\/p>\n

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The birds in their transport crate<\/p><\/div>\n

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Giri Athrey and Don Shadow<\/p><\/div>\n

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RJF making their acquaintance with their new home.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Postdoc Hoa Nguyen-Phuc and I traveled to Tennessee to the property of a gentleman (Mr. Don Shadow) who has been one of the more successful people to keep Red Junglefowl in captivity. Through the contacts and great help of Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin ( professor emeritus at University of Georgia), we were able to coordinate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-red-junglefowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}