{"id":14835,"date":"2016-12-01T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14835"},"modified":"2016-12-01T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T05:04:44","slug":"daylights-savings-time-might-be-key-to-saving-koalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/daylights-savings-time-might-be-key-to-saving-koalas\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight\u2019s Savings Time Might Be Key To Saving Koalas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/120116_0500_DaylightsSa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen Kaplan wrote about koalas and daylight saving&#8217;s time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Queensland, Australia, the population of Koalas has fallen by 80% in the past two decades.<\/li>\n<li>Part of the reason is commuters that drive around the time it becomes dark \u2013 which also happens to be when nocturnal koala bears are most active and likely to be hit.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming that people&#8217;s commuting hours didn&#8217;t change, playing around with the clocks through daylight&#8217;s savings time would mean that people would return from the office while it was light out.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers estimated that this would reduce koala deaths by 8% on weekdays, and as much as 11% on weekends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the study on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-daylight-savings-koalas-20161122-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/11\/arguments-ponder-thanksgiving.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Kaplan wrote about koalas and daylight saving&#8217;s time: In Queensland, Australia, the population of Koalas has fallen by 80% in the past two decades. Part of the reason is commuters that drive around the time it becomes dark \u2013 which also happens to be when nocturnal koala bears are most active and likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/120116_0500_DaylightsSa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14839,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835\/revisions\/14839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}