{"id":6989,"date":"2025-01-01T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2025-06-25T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:03:20","slug":"cook-islands-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/cook-islands-local","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands Local Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Horses are not native to the Cook Islands, they were introduced at some point and naturalized. It&#8217;s possible there were some feral animals found on Rarotonga, but their numbers have dwindled.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>There is not a lot of information about the local horse found on the Cook Islands except that they are exceptionally rare. It is unclear what breeds were exported to the islands, although they likely came from New Zealand or Australia. They have a variety of traditional names including Puaka \u2018Oro-\u2018enua, \u2018Aka\u2018oro, \u2018Oro\u2018enua and Lio. <\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Calm and willing<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<br \/>\nTransportation<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBCRVM6nULY?si=6bI4MPXjiEj7Ssut\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Top image from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dpbear\/788833784\/in\/photolist-2ouxnC3-2cGYNu\">Davedawggy<\/a> under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC By-SA 2.0<\/a> license<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Horses are not native to the Cook Islands, they were introduced at some point and naturalized. It&#8217;s possible there were some feral animals found on Rarotonga, but their numbers have dwindled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cook-islands","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9400,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions\/9400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}