{"id":37939,"date":"2022-12-17T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37939"},"modified":"2022-12-17T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:48:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/17\/word-of-the-day-846\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Particoloured<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Made up of sections having different, often bright,\u00a0<a title=\"colour\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/colour\">colours<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/particoloured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And there wasn&#8217;t much out there for definitions of <em>particoloured<\/em>, I was surprised to say, although there was a blog called <em>Particolour<\/em>. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2348850-flying-squirrels-carve-nuts-to-store-them-securely-in-tree-branches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Le Page, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (10 December 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They then set up 32 infrared cameras to monitor some of the stored nuts. They found two species of squirrels came to check the nuts or retrieve them: a subspecies of the Hainan flying squirrel called Hylopetes phayrei electilis and the particoloured flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fascinating article on these two species of flying squirrels chewing grooves in their food nuts in order to securely store them in tree forks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particoloured: Made up of sections having different, often bright,\u00a0colours.\u00a0[Wiktionary] And there wasn&#8217;t much out there for definitions of particoloured, I was surprised to say, although there was a blog called Particolour. Noted in &#8220;Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches,&#8221; Michael Le Page, NewScientist (10 December \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/17\/word-of-the-day-846\/\"> 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-37939","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\/37939","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=37939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37940,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions\/37940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}