{"id":27527,"date":"2012-04-18T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27527"},"modified":"2012-04-18T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:08:33","slug":"potential-for-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27527","title":{"rendered":"Potential For Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a language geek.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not a mystery why I flocked to this story. \u00a0Sperm whales communicate via a series of morse code-like clicking sounds.<\/p>\n<p>And those sounds apparently have dialect differences and, according to researchers,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Differences in the patterned clicks that sperm whales use to communicate with each other seem to be down to culture and not genetics, say researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The finding could influence conservation efforts; instead of focussing solely on where the animals live, protection should also consider which dialect they use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, conservation efforts &#8211; say some of the researchers &#8211; should focus on cultural differences between the groups of whales.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t turn into full-blown multiculturalism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a language geek. So it&#8217;s not a mystery why I flocked to this story. \u00a0Sperm whales communicate via a series of morse code-like clicking sounds. And those sounds apparently have dialect differences and, according to researchers, Differences in the patterned clicks that sperm whales use to communicate with each other seem to be down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}