{"id":2083,"date":"2012-06-13T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/06\/birds-bats-and-bugs\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:54:44","slug":"birds-bats-and-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/birds-bats-and-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds, Bats, and Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">Today&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=birds-and-bats-downsized-bugs-12-06-12\">60-Second Science podcast<\/a>\u00a0from Scientific American:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><b>Birds and Bats Downsized Bugs<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><i>Insect size tracked with atmospheric oxygen levels, until hungry birds and bats hit the scene.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">In the day of the dinosaur, insects had wingspans of nearly two-and-a-half feet.\u00a0So why are today\u2019s bugs so puny?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/artibeusjamaicensis_brucetaubert.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo courtesy of Bruce Taubert Wildlife Photography<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.brucetaubert.com\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Birds and bats!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at U.C. Santa Cruz have published their findings on the evolution of insect size in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <\/em>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=birds-and-bats-downsized-bugs-12-06-12\">Scientific American site<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website to learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/migratory-bird-project.html\">Neotropical Migratory Birds<\/a>\u00a0in Central America, or to learn how our scientists are <a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/valuing-the-ecosystem-services-of-bats.html\">Valuing the Ecosystem Services of Bats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a060-Second Science podcast\u00a0from Scientific American: Birds and Bats Downsized Bugs Insect size tracked with atmospheric oxygen levels, until hungry birds and bats hit the scene. In the day of the dinosaur, insects had wingspans of nearly two-and-a-half feet.\u00a0So why are today\u2019s bugs so puny? Photo courtesy of Bruce Taubert Wildlife Photography http:\/\/www.brucetaubert.com\/ Birds and bats! [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}