{"id":8837,"date":"2017-03-31T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2017-03-31T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:35:00","slug":"word-of-the-day-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/31\/word-of-the-day-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ectoparasites<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parasites that live on the outside of the host, either on the skin or the outgrowths of the skin, are called ectoparasites (e.g. lice, fleas, and some mites). [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parasitism\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found in a book review, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23331170-600-how-did-the-zebra-get-its-stripes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How did the zebra get its stripes<\/em><\/a>?&#8221; Matthew Cobb, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (18 March 2017):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caro lists dozens of theories, most of which boil down to five common factors: camouflage (protection from predators); warning coloration (zebras can bite); communication (social behaviours); temperature regulation (stripes may help resist the heat); and ectoparasites (biting flies might not like stripes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ectoparasites: Parasites that live on the outside of the host, either on the skin or the outgrowths of the skin, are called ectoparasites (e.g. lice, fleas, and some mites). [Wikipedia] Found in a book review, &#8220;How did the zebra get its stripes?&#8221; Matthew Cobb, NewScientist (18 March 2017): Caro lists \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/31\/word-of-the-day-119\/\"> 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-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}