{"id":28441,"date":"2020-04-22T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28441"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:24:29","slug":"word-of-the-day-555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/22\/word-of-the-day-555\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Synanthropic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>synanthrope<\/b>\u00a0(from the Greek \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u00a0<i>syn<\/i>, &#8220;together with&#8221; + \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0<i>anthropos<\/i>, &#8220;man&#8221;) is a member of a\u00a0<a title=\"Species\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a>\u00a0of wild\u00a0<a title=\"Animal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal\">animals<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Plant\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plant\">plants<\/a>\u00a0of various kinds that live near, and benefit from, an association with\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Human being\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_being\">human beings<\/a>\u00a0and the somewhat artificial habitats that people create around them (see\u00a0<a title=\"Anthropophilia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthropophilia\">anthropophilia<\/a>). Those habitats include houses, gardens, farms, roadsides, garbage dumps, and so on.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synanthrope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24532770-600-little-green-invaders-how-parakeets-conquered-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Little green invaders: how parakeets conquered the world<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Graham Lawton, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (11 April 2020, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For now, invasive parakeets are considered synanthropic, meaning that they live in close proximity to humans so as to exploit artificial habitats such as heat islands and bird feeders. But climate change could alter that. \u201cMy suspicion is that as the climate generally warms, and particularly as winters get milder, there are probably more birds making it through the winter and that\u2019s helping the population to grow,\u201d says Blackburn. \u201cIncreasingly, I think we\u2019ll see them outside the cities.\u201d They will probably spread even further north. So, there may yet be life in Monty Python\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo\">Norwegian Blue<\/a>\u00a0parrot \u2013 there is a blue variety of ring-necked parakeet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synanthropic: A\u00a0synanthrope\u00a0(from the Greek \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u00a0syn, &#8220;together with&#8221; + \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0anthropos, &#8220;man&#8221;) is a member of a\u00a0species\u00a0of wild\u00a0animals\u00a0and\u00a0plants\u00a0of various kinds that live near, and benefit from, an association with\u00a0human beings\u00a0and the somewhat artificial habitats that people create around them (see\u00a0anthropophilia). Those habitats include houses, gardens, farms, roadsides, garbage dumps, and so on.\u00a0[Wikipedia] \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/22\/word-of-the-day-555\/\"> 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-28441","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\/28441","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=28441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28442,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions\/28442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}