{"id":484,"date":"2009-09-19T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2009-09-19T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T14:06:19","slug":"annie-get-your-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/19\/annie-get-your-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie get your gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been planning that long-awaited trek Way Down Underneath (Australia), here&#8217;s some exciting news from the New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/19\/opinion\/19sat4.html\">&#8220;It\u2019s estimated that there are between 4 million and 12 million feral cats in Australia, the progeny of former house cats. Just in the Kimberley \u2014 a region of northwestern Australia that is about the size of California \u2014 feral cats are eating as many as 300 million small mammals, especially small nocturnal marsupials, a year.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result of such an invasion? &#8220;Scientists surveying native mammals in northern Australia, widely regarded as an oasis of biodiversity, report that they are finding it almost impossible to catch native mammals.&#8221; [NYT]<\/p>\n<p>Is this just another example of Big Stupid Human Tricks? Of course it is.  <\/p>\n<p>G&#8217;day!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been planning that long-awaited trek Way Down Underneath (Australia), here&#8217;s some exciting news from the New York Times: &#8220;It\u2019s estimated that there are between 4 million and 12 million feral cats in Australia, the progeny of former house cats. Just in the Kimberley \u2014 a region of northwestern Australia that is about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}