{"id":2328,"date":"2026-09-13T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:36:19","slug":"the-triplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/2026\/09\/13\/the-triplets\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TRIPLETS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The birth of twins&nbsp; in spring to a West Virginia White-tailed deer&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;(Odocoileus virginianus) &#8230;mama is a pretty ordinary occurance. The birth of triplets, however, is a&nbsp; less common event&#8230; seemingly almost unheard of ( at least in my area.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Two years ago I had the pleasure of watching triplet fawns grow up right in my back yard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There was only one occasion when all three were out in full view at the same time- very early one morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I grabbed my camera &#8211; a&nbsp; low resolution 1 mp which I had at that time- and started snapping pictures. The light was very dim, but I managed to get several presentable shots as the three youngsters frolicked and played much like a litter of puppies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>While&nbsp; my husband and I watched breathlessly, two of them engaged in a boxing match.(The third one can be seen on the right of the picture.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/09\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2330\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Then he\/she joined his sisters\/brothers for a rousing game of tag.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/09\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2329\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I can imagine the one in front saying, &#8220;You can&#8217;t catch me,!!&#8230;..nanner nanner !<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/09\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/09\/image-2.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/09\/image-2-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this shot there seems to be a battle of wills going on.&nbsp; Like &#8230;ummmm &#8230;I&nbsp; DARE YOU !!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We got small glimpses&nbsp; of the family from time to time for the rest of that summer but never saw them all together again as a group.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We often wondered what became of them and tried hard not to imagine them as someones&nbsp; dinner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It was a once in a lifetime experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth of twins&nbsp; in spring to a West Virginia White-tailed deer&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;(Odocoileus virginianus) &#8230;mama is a pretty ordinary occurance. The birth of triplets, however, is a&nbsp; less common event&#8230; seemingly almost unheard of ( at least in my area.) Two years ago I had the pleasure of watching triplet fawns grow up right in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/anythinggoes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}