{"id":14534,"date":"2014-01-13T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2014-01-13T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:00:19","slug":"the-fantastic-mr-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14534","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Mr. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘You’re Invisible, But I’ll Eat You Anyway.’ Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a link to Ed Yong’s piece<\/a> this is based on.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to really critique analysis based on a popular summary of research, but to me the explanation of using the earth’s magnetic field as a “rangefinder” seems lacking, since the foxes aren’t jumping a fixed distance to nab their prey. Still, however they are doing this it’s neat.<\/p>\n

There’s an additional bit on kottke,<\/a> showing acoustic location instruments (“war tubas”) which were used until radar took over. Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘You’re Invisible, But I’ll Eat You Anyway.’ Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes Here’s a link to Ed Yong’s piece this is based on. It’s hard to really critique analysis based on a popular summary of research, but to me the explanation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}