{"id":603,"date":"2009-05-19T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:50:16","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Florida have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/may\/18\/mockingbirds-human-recognition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered<\/a> what is known to every Australian schoolchild: that some birds can recognize humans who have threatened them in the past, and that they bear grudges.&nbsp; For the scientists, it was mockingbirds, but for Aussie kids, it&#8217;s magpies, who can attack people viciously when there are young birds in their nest.&nbsp; But not everyone is attacked, which suggests that magpies can distinguish and recognize people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Florida have discovered what is known to every Australian schoolchild: that some birds can recognize humans who have threatened them in the past, and that they bear grudges.&nbsp; For the scientists, it was mockingbirds, but for Aussie kids, it&#8217;s magpies, who can attack people viciously when there are young birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","p1","y2009","m05","d19","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}