{"id":758896,"date":"2023-06-26T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758896"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:10:30","slug":"research-team-establishes-baseline-data-on-cortisol-levels-on-leopard-seals-mysterious-apex-predators-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758896","title":{"rendered":"Research team establishes baseline data on cortisol levels on leopard seals, mysterious apex predators in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leopard seals are prehistoric, reptilian-looking marine predators often portrayed as scary villains in movies such as &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; and &#8220;Eight Below,&#8221; but little is known about their basic biology. The combination of the extreme climate in Antarctica, the species&#8217; solitary habits and their lethal reputation makes leopard seals one of the most difficult apex predators to study on Earth.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-team-baseline-cortisol-leopard-mysterious.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Research team establishes baseline data on cortisol levels on leopard seals, mysterious apex predators in Antarctica<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopard seals are prehistoric, reptilian-looking marine predators often portrayed as scary villains in movies such as &#8220;Happy Feet&#8221; and &#8220;Eight Below,&#8221; but little is known about their basic biology. The&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-758896","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\/758896","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=758896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758896\/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=758896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}