{"id":2929,"date":"2015-12-20T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2015-12-20T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:32:11","slug":"word-of-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/12\/20\/word-of-the-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22830490-500-how-wily-wild-turkeys-struck-it-lucky-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (28 November 2015, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pendulous flesh hanging down over a male [wild turkey]\u2019s beak is called a <strong>snood<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following a near-death experience for the various subspecies of American wild turkeys, a program for protection and return to their normal range was formulated.\u00a0 Initial failures taught the researchers that entire flocks had to be relocated &#8211; en masse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 1960, most wild turkey breeding had been ditched. Instead, wildlife agencies used spring-loaded rocket nets to capture whole flocks and relocate them to a suitable turkey-free habitat. Bingo! Turkeys began spreading like wildfire. Able to adapt to new settings before potential predators had learned to hunt them, they enjoyed a honeymoon period in many places that enabled populations to establish and thrive, says Hughes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure would like to see the netting of an entire flock like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewScientist (28 November 2015, paywall): The pendulous flesh hanging down over a male [wild turkey]\u2019s beak is called a snood. Following a near-death experience for the various subspecies of American wild turkeys, a program for protection and return to their normal range was formulated.\u00a0 Initial failures taught the researchers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/12\/20\/word-of-the-day-5\/\"> 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-2929","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\/2929","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=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}