{"id":320635,"date":"2017-05-24T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/05\/170524085604.htm"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:56:04","slug":"zebras-follow-their-memory-when-migrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=320635","title":{"rendered":"Zebras follow their memory when migrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zebras may use memory to guide their migration each year.\u00a0Memory based on past average conditions provides a clear signal that best directs zebras to their destination. In contrast, current vegetation conditions along the way are less important for the direction of the migration according to a computer simulation. The study highlights that migration routes of large terrestrial mammals such as zebras could be more inflexible than previously thought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zebras may use memory to guide their migration each year.&nbsp;Memory based on past average conditions provides a clear signal that best directs zebras to their destination. In contrast, current vegetation conditions along the way are less important for the direction of the migration according to a computer simulation. The study highlights that migration routes of large terrestrial mammals such as zebras could be more inflexible than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320635","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320636,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320635\/revisions\/320636"}],"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=320635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}