{"id":28319,"date":"2020-04-11T17:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28319"},"modified":"2020-04-11T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:51:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/11\/word-of-the-day-554\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Zygodactyl<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2229571-african-grey-parrots-are-smart-enough-to-help-a-bird-in-need\/\">Parrots<\/a> have handedness, or rather footedness. They are zygodactyl, which means they have two toes facing forwards and two facing backwards. Most birds have three going forwards and one backwards. The orientation of the toes makes parrots good at climbing and picking things up and holding them. They often pick up a large piece of food and hold it in one foot while eating it a piece at a time. Most are left-footed. Whichever foot a bird uses is almost always the same. My cockatoo is left-footed.\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/lastword\/mg24532761-400-lend-a-hand-is-there-an-advantage-to-being-left-or-right-handed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Last Word<\/a><em>,&#8221; response <\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">by Linda Dow <\/span><em>to a question regarding handedness in animals, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (4 April 2020)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zygodactyl: Parrots have handedness, or rather footedness. They are zygodactyl, which means they have two toes facing forwards and two facing backwards. Most birds have three going forwards and one backwards. The orientation of the toes makes parrots good at climbing and picking things up and holding them. They often \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/11\/word-of-the-day-554\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-28319","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\/28319","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=28319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28320,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions\/28320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}