{"id":13276,"date":"2017-12-13T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:53:42","slug":"something-to-chew-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/13\/something-to-chew-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Something To Chew On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/upfront\/3154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (2 December 2017):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.audubon.org\/cdn\/farfuture\/zOSpNxy7SWUaAsERL0H5JaLzrO7KyhGLBcH5cX4xV8Y\/mtime%3A1422549349\/sites\/default\/files\/Snail_Kite_s52-12-227_l.jpg?resize=313%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/snail-kite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Audubon Society<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evolution usually moves at a snail\u2019s pace, but not always. North American birds called snail kites have evolved larger beaks in less than a decade, in order to eat invasive island apple snails that are much larger than the snails they used to eat (<i>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/i>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/cgrv\">doi.org\/cgrv<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They may not be a distinct species, but it&#8217;s a graphic illustration of adaptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewScientist (2 December 2017): Evolution usually moves at a snail\u2019s pace, but not always. North American birds called snail kites have evolved larger beaks in less than a decade, in order to eat invasive island apple snails that are much larger than the snails they used to eat (Nature \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/13\/something-to-chew-on\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}