{"id":632815,"date":"2019-10-02T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=632815"},"modified":"2019-10-02T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:55:33","slug":"chimpanzees-are-being-killed-by-poachers-researchers-like-us-are-on-the-frontline-protecting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=632815","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzees are being killed by poachers \u2013 researchers like us are on the frontline protecting them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park in East Africa. Researchers ran to find Kidman \u2013 an adult female chimpanzee\u2014and her child being attacked by the dogs of poachers. In their desperate attempt to save them, the researchers fought off the dogs and removed a spear that poachers had lodged in Kidman&#8217;s back. She died shortly after the researchers had arrived, her infant a few days later.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-10-chimpanzees-poachers-frontline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Chimpanzees are being killed by poachers \u2013 researchers like us are on the frontline protecting them<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park in East Africa. Researchers ran to find Kidman \u2013 an adult female chimpanzee\u2014and her&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632815","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632815\/revisions"}],"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=632815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}