{"id":1694,"date":"2009-07-09T21:38:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2009-07-09T21:38:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:38:42","slug":"amphibian-species-born-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/07\/amphibian-species-born-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibian Species &#8220;Born to Strike&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of lungless salamanders has been found in the foothills of the Appalachians which has the unique ability to &#8220;switch off&#8221; activity in protest at its lot. When rewards are not sufficient, it goes &#8220;on strike&#8221;, doing nothing for weeks at a time until conditions have improved before it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8140000\/8140003.stm\">carries on salamandering.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/46030000\/jpg\/_46030165_lunglesssalamander466.jpg\" align=left width=300>Researchers from Piedmont College in Demorest dubbed it the &#8216;patch-nosed&#8217; salamander after the yellow patch on the animal&#8217;s snout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the first genus of amphibian, indeed of any four-footed vertebrate, discovered in the US in nearly 50 years,&#8221; said biologist Carlos Camp, &#8220;and the first political animal of any kind to be found in nature outside homo sapiens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of lungless salamanders has been found in the foothills of the Appalachians which has the unique ability to &#8220;switch off&#8221; activity in protest at its lot. When rewards are not sufficient, it goes &#8220;on strike&#8221;, doing nothing for weeks at a time until conditions have improved before it carries on salamandering. Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[786,387],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flip-side","tag-politics","tag-salamander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}