{"id":3764,"date":"2011-03-09T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2011-03-09T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:07:01","slug":"frozen-flamingos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/frozen-flamingos\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Flamingos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Krulwich was reading Ian Frazier&#8217;s new travelogue, <i>Travels in Siberia<\/i>, and got interested in the flamingos that had landed there (and then gone to live in a nearby zoo). He pursued the story, talking to more than the Siberian locals.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marita Davison, who studies flamingos at Cornell University, says she regularly sees Bolivian flamingos up in the Andes Mountains. And at that high up \u2014 16,000 feet \u2014 the lakes freeze around their feet. She sent us this video of flamingos stuck in ice. There are two on the right trying to get free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18059373\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really an amazing sight to see,&#8221; she told us. &#8220;They&#8217;ll just wait for it to thaw and then go on [with] their business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just a small detour from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2011\/03\/07\/134229725\/flamingos-drop-from-siberian-sky-locals-mystified\" target=\"_blank\">Krulwich&#8217;s exploration of the mystery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Krulwich was reading Ian Frazier&#8217;s new travelogue, Travels in Siberia, and got interested in the flamingos that had landed there (and then gone to live in a nearby zoo). He pursued the story, talking to more than the Siberian locals. Marita Davison, who studies flamingos at Cornell University, says she regularly sees Bolivian flamingos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[20],"tags":[468,682,1343],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-flamingos","tag-krulwich","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-YI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}