{"id":262,"date":"2008-05-02T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T21:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/262"},"modified":"2008-05-02T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T21:51:28","slug":"scary-nonphysics-geek-stuff-animal-robo-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/262","title":{"rendered":"Scary Nonphysics Geek Stuff: Animal Robo-Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news128959950.html\">Mechanical squirrels, robot lizards jump into research <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Indiana, for instance, a fake lizard shows off its machismo as researchers assess which actions intimidate and which attract real lizards. Pheromone-soaked cockroach counterfeits in Brussels, meanwhile, exert peer pressure on real roaches to move out of protective darkness. In California, a tiny video camera inside a fake female sage grouse records close-up details as it&#8217;s wooed &#8211; and more &#8211; by the breed&#8217;s unusually promiscuous males.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a short video of said sage grouse, deemed the fembot (oh, be<em>have<\/em>!).  It&#8217;s a preview that&#8217;s G-rated (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) though check out the soundtrack.  I fully expected Mrs. Krabappel to pop up and proclaim, &#8220;She&#8217;s faking it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GndFWXIOG8Q?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GndFWXIOG8Q?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanical squirrels, robot lizards jump into research In Indiana, for instance, a fake lizard shows off its machismo as researchers assess which actions intimidate and which attract real lizards. Pheromone-soaked cockroach counterfeits in Brussels, meanwhile, exert peer pressure on real &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[35,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}