{"id":14028,"date":"2016-05-05T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:03:55","slug":"storks-have-stopped-migrating-south-for-the-winter-go-for-dominos-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/storks-have-stopped-migrating-south-for-the-winter-go-for-dominos-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Storks Have Stopped Migrating South For The Winter; Go For Dominos Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/050516_0317_StorksHaveS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you see a stork carrying a bag home you can&#8217;t just assume anymore that it&#8217;s a family being blessed with a newborn, according to the experts at the University of East Anglia. It could well be a take-out order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of heading over to countries in Africa from Spain and Portugal for the winter, storks have decided to stay put.<\/li>\n<li>They do this because they&#8217;ve discovered the wonders of junk food. They now just raid open landfill sites for food rather than make the arduous journey south.<\/li>\n<li>Storks now invest in finding prime nest building spots which they defend year-round.<\/li>\n<li>The convenience maybe responsible for the explosion in the population of the species \u2013 in the past 20 years their numbers have grown 10-fold.<\/li>\n<li>Alas they may pay a price for their laziness. EU directives will soon require open land-fill sites to be shut down. Hopefully the birds haven&#8217;t entirely forgotten how to make it south to find food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the study <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016-03-storks-winter-migration-favor-junk.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016-03-storks-winter-migration-favor-junk.html\">Phys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see a stork carrying a bag home you can&#8217;t just assume anymore that it&#8217;s a family being blessed with a newborn, according to the experts at the University of East Anglia. It could well be a take-out order: Instead of heading over to countries in Africa from Spain and Portugal for the winter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/050516_0317_StorksHaveS1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14031,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions\/14031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}