{"id":5805,"date":"2012-09-01T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:50:26","slug":"how-do-hurricanes-affect-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-do-hurricanes-affect-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Hurricanes Affect Dolphins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rQkvR0FkPbk\/TVgPUUpyDKI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/pDoq6sPfI1U\/s1600\/Jumping_Bottlenose_Dolphins.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rQkvR0FkPbk\/TVgPUUpyDKI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/pDoq6sPfI1U\/s1600\/Jumping_Bottlenose_Dolphins.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On land hurricanes create devastation and destruction. But what effects do they have on our intelligent friends under the ocean? Jason G. Goldman reported on a study that attempted to answer the question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the years after Hurricane Katrina there was a massive <em>increase <\/em>in the number of (bottlenose) dolphins.<\/li>\n<li>This might be because the hurricane caused the destruction of boats; and since dolphins don&#8217;t appear to like boats this meant that they could spend more time hunting and eating.<\/li>\n<li>The destruction of boats also meant that the rate of fishing was lower, meaning that there was more food available for the dolphins, increasing their numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read other factors that might explain the surprising result, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/2012\/08\/31\/what-do-hurricanes-mean-for-dolphins\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/2012\/08\/31\/what-do-hurricanes-mean-for-dolphins\/\">Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On land hurricanes create devastation and destruction. But what effects do they have on our intelligent friends under the ocean? Jason G. Goldman reported on a study that attempted to answer the question: In the years after Hurricane Katrina there was a massive increase in the number of (bottlenose) dolphins. This might be because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090112_0540_HowDoHurric1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","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=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}