{"id":316049,"date":"2017-05-16T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d86e5e97c6f4f14d0868c8ec71fc2ae1"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:13:46","slug":"egyptian-vultures-found-to-engage-in-puzzling-cosmetic-mud-bathing-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=316049","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian vultures found to engage in puzzling cosmetic mud bathing rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014A trio of researchers working at the Do\u00f1ana Biological Station in Spain has found that Egyptian vultures living in the Canary Islands dip their head, neck and chest in red soil to color themselves. In their paper published in in the journal Ecology, Thijs van Overveld, Manuel de la Riva and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Don\u00e1zar describe their observations, a small experiment they conducted, and offer some opinions regarding the reason for the unique behavior of the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)&mdash;A trio of researchers working at the Do&ntilde;ana Biological Station in Spain has found that Egyptian vultures living in the Canary Islands dip their head, neck and chest in red soil to color themselves. In their paper published in in the journal Ecology, Thijs van Overveld, Manuel de la Riva and Jos&eacute; Antonio Don&aacute;zar describe their observations, a small experiment they conducted, and offer some opinions regarding the reason for the unique behavior of the birds.<\/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-316049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316049","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=316049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316050,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316049\/revisions\/316050"}],"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=316049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}