{"id":714401,"date":"2022-01-24T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714401"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:00:01","slug":"hippos-recognize-each-others-voices-respond-differently-to-calls-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714401","title":{"rendered":"Hippos recognize each other&#039;s voices, respond differently to calls of strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their &#8220;wheeze honk&#8221; calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role in maintaining social groups. Now, a study in the journal Current Biology on January 24 shows that hippos recognize each other&#8217;s voices. They also respond less aggressively to the calls of a neighbor compared to those of a stranger.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-hippos-voices-differently-strangers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hippos recognize each other&#8217;s voices, respond differently to calls of strangers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their &#8220;wheeze honk&#8221; calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role in maintaining social groups. Now,&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-714401","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\/714401","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=714401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714401\/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=714401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}