{"id":246590,"date":"2016-12-07T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c82055b7261c295cd8338bc573abebc4"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:20:12","slug":"iguanas-partner-with-the-plants-of-the-galapagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=246590","title":{"rendered":"Iguanas partner with the plants of the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The isolation of ocean islands like the Gal\u00e1pagos prevents the arrival of large mammals, which disperse the seeds of many plants by ingesting them. In the absence of mammals, this function is filled by birds, tortoises, lizards and iguanas. To date, no investigation had been carried out into the role iguanas play with at least ten species of plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The isolation of ocean islands like the Gal&aacute;pagos prevents the arrival of large mammals, which disperse the seeds of many plants by ingesting them. In the absence of mammals, this function is filled by birds, tortoises, lizards and iguanas. To date, no investigation had been carried out into the role iguanas play with at least ten species of plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246591,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246590\/revisions\/246591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}