{"id":2639,"date":"2010-07-08T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2010-07-08T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:16:51","slug":"squirrels-lie-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/squirrels-lie-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrels Lie Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, the Steele team showed that when squirrels are certain that they are being watched, they will actively seek to deceive the would-be thieves. They\u2019ll dig a hole, pretend to push an acorn in, and then cover it over, all the while keeping the prized seed hidden in their mouth. \u201cDeceptive caching involves some pretty serious decision making,\u201d Dr. Steele said. \u201cIt meets the criteria of tactical deception, which previously was thought to only occur in primates.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And many other squirrel facts of interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/06\/science\/06angi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, the Steele team showed that when squirrels are certain that they are being watched, they will actively seek to deceive the would-be thieves. They\u2019ll dig a hole, pretend to push an acorn in, and then cover it over, all the while keeping the prized seed hidden in their mouth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[70,336,836,1136],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-words","tag-angier","tag-deception","tag-new-york-times","tag-squirrels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Gz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}