{"id":158,"date":"2003-12-09T01:22:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T01:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:41","slug":"fast-food-becoming-a-bear-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"fast food becoming a bear necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It seems that black bears are prone to the diet  and exercise problems of our modern-day, fast-food existence. According  to a recent study published in the <em>Journal of Zoology,<\/em> black bears  living in and around urban areas are up to a third less active and weigh  up to 30 percent more than bears living in more wild areas. Biologists  from the Wildlife Conservation Society have observed that the bears  aren&#8217;t actively foraging for berries or carrion as they normally would  in the wilderness, but instead are dumpster-diving behind the mall or at  fast-food restaurants for their meals. &#8220;Black bears in urban areas are  putting on weight and doing less-strenuous activities,&#8221; stated Jon  Beckmann, the lead author of the study. &#8220;They&#8217;re hitting the local  dumpster for dinner, then calling it a day.&#8221; The researchers also have  found that the bears have become more nocturnal than their country  cousins, presumably to avoid interacting with humans, and the time they  spend in their winter dens also has declined, thanks to a year-round  supply of food. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 12\/09\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that black bears are prone to the diet and exercise problems of our modern-day, fast-food existence. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Zoology, black bears living in and around urban areas are up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}