{"id":4532,"date":"2010-01-01T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2010-01-01T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T08:00:08","slug":"great-turtle-farts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4532","title":{"rendered":"Great Turtle Farts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/wildlife\/6816697\/Aquarium-lowers-water-levels-after-feeding-turtles-brussel-sprouts.html\">Aquarium lowers water levels after feeding turtles brussel sprouts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he turtles, like humans, are prone to heavy bouts of flatulence after eating the vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Last year a turtle at a Sealife Centre triggered overflow alarms in the middle of the night after the splashes from gassy bubbles hit overflow sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Yarmouth turtle tank -12 feet in depth and width holding 250,000 litres of water along with George the 3ft long green turtle &#8211; has been partially emptied for the festive season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how this affects their buoyancy and swimming speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquarium lowers water levels after feeding turtles brussel sprouts [T]he turtles, like humans, are prone to heavy bouts of flatulence after eating the vegetables. Last year a turtle at a Sealife Centre triggered overflow alarms in the middle of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","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\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}