{"id":25139,"date":"2021-10-28T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=25139"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:03:28","slug":"why-are-giant-pandas-black-and-white-scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-distinctive-colouring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=25139","title":{"rendered":"Why are giant pandas black and white? Scientists unlock the secrets of distinctive colouring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe purpose of giant pandas\u2019 black-and-white fur may have been solved, according to a new study finding that even though humans at the zoo could easily see them, the bears\u2019 distinctive colouration gave them effective camouflage in the wild.\u201cThe giant panda uses black-and-white pelage as a form of crypsis to avoid detection in its natural habitat,\u201d scientists from Britain, China, Finland and the United States wrote in an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports\u00a0on\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3154022\/why-are-giant-pandas-black-and-white-scientists-unlock-secrets?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe purpose of giant pandas\u2019 black-and-white fur may have been solved, according to a new study finding that even though humans at the zoo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}