{"id":56867,"date":"2018-05-11T04:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56867"},"modified":"2018-05-11T04:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T04:36:22","slug":"kangaroo-rats-thought-to-be-extinct-reappear-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/05\/11\/kangaroo-rats-thought-to-be-extinct-reappear-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo rats thought to be extinct reappear after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Quintin kangaroo rats, declared extinct by the Mexican government in 1994, made a reappearance after 30 years, much to the delight of animal conservationists. Four of these\u00a0small furry mammals were rediscovered along a narrow strip of Baja California\u2019s coast by a team of researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s3\">\u2033<\/span><span class=\"s4\">There\u2019s a feeling of anticipation and excitement when you check the memory card of a camera trap that you left placed for days, or when you open a Sherman trap to see what animal is inside,\u201d write the researchers in a blog post. \u201cIt\u2019s not unlike the feeling of being a child discovering something new\u2026a child who discovers the world around him or her and is amazed by its wonders.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s4\">The team adds that that feeling \u201cmultiplies exponentially\u201d when rediscovering a species presumed extinct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/kangaroo-rat-native-baja-california-isnt-extinct-after-all-180968926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/kangaroo-rat-native-baja-california-isnt-extinct-after-all-180968926\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Quintin kangaroo rats, declared extinct by the Mexican government in 1994, made a reappearance after 30 years, much to the delight of animal conservationists. Four of these\u00a0small furry mammals were rediscovered along a narrow strip of Baja California\u2019s coast by a team of researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum. \u2033There\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}