{"id":9174,"date":"2014-09-01T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2014-09-01T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:04:17","slug":"the-treadmill-of-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/the-treadmill-of-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Treadmill of Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/60126#page\/393\/mode\/1up\">Writes Louis-Pierre Vieillot<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The passenger pigeons have their own unique way of plucking acorns: they climb continuously up and down the oak trees; they\u00a0ascend\u00a0one\u00a0after another, and each beats its wings two or three times to knock off then descends to eat its own or those that the others have knocked down. The activity of ascent and descent creates a perpetual motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And one we&#8217;ll never see again.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/pictures-of-pigeons\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-05-20-16.52.55.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"777\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frisch, Vorstellung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writes Louis-Pierre Vieillot, The passenger pigeons have their own unique way of plucking acorns: they climb continuously up and down the oak trees; they\u00a0ascend\u00a0one\u00a0after another, and each beats its wings two or three times to knock off then descends to eat its own or those that the others have knocked down. The activity of ascent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/the-treadmill-of-survival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Treadmill of Survival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}