{"id":724,"date":"2020-01-24T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?p=724"},"modified":"2021-05-14T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:11:13","slug":"hot-off-the-press-urban-crows-have-elevated-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/hot-off-the-press-urban-crows-have-elevated-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured lab publication: Urban crows have elevated cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban crows can have higher cholesterol levels than their rural cousins, probably because they are eating human food.<\/p>\n<p>Article: Townsend, A. K., H. A. Staab and C. M. Barker (2019). &#8220;Urbanization and elevated cholesterol in American Crows.&#8221; <u>Condor<\/u> <strong>121<\/strong>(3).<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the press coverage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/08\/190826092338.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/08\/190826092338.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2214371-city-crows-may-have-high-cholesterol-because-they-eat-fast-food\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2214371-city-crows-may-have-high-cholesterol-because-they-eat-fast-food\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/crow-cholesterol-climbs-after-chomping-cheeseburgers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-720\" src=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crow-burger-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban crows can have higher cholesterol levels than their rural cousins, probably because they are eating human food. Article: Townsend, A. K., H. A. Staab and C. M. Barker (2019). &#8220;Urbanization and elevated cholesterol in American Crows.&#8221; Condor 121(3). Check out some of the press coverage: https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/08\/190826092338.htm https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2214371-city-crows-may-have-high-cholesterol-because-they-eat-fast-food\/ https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/crow-cholesterol-climbs-after-chomping-cheeseburgers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}