{"id":132,"date":"2008-04-26T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-04-26T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T20:55:09","slug":"black-squirrels-on-the-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/04\/26\/black-squirrels-on-the-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Black squirrels on the march!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/04\/26\/squirrel10a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/>Seems like it&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;sucks to be you&#8221; situation for the roughly 2 million grey squirrels in the UK &#8212; and the 150,000 red squirrels in the Scotland can&#8217;t be too happy about it either.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/apr\/26\/endangeredspecies\">Steven Morris has the story<\/a> in the Guardian<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Having usurped the red squirrel in most parts, grey squirrels are now getting a taste of their own medicine from stronger, more aggressive black upstarts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Geneticist Helen McRobie, who also took part in the study, said reasons for the success of the black squirrel included its more aggressive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>I for one welcome our new black squirrel overlords.  (Was that obsequious enough?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;sucks to be you&#8221; situation for the roughly 2 million grey squirrels in the UK &#8212; and the 150,000 red squirrels in the Scotland can&#8217;t be too happy about it either. Steven Morris has the story in the Guardian Having usurped the red squirrel in most parts, grey squirrels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-squirrels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}