{"id":328,"date":"2003-02-04T03:24:35","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T03:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:17","slug":"groundhogs-checking-out-ladies-not-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"groundhogs: checking out ladies, not weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forget the shadow, male groundhogs are looking for  love when they emerge from their burrows in early February. Stamatis  Zervanos, a biologist at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, studied  32 free-ranging groundhogs over four hibernation seasons. He found that  male groundhogs often visit a few female burrows during their brief  period of emergence before returning to their own burrows for the last  part of their winter&#8217;s sleep. The females, on the other hand, tended to  stay close to their burrows. Zervanos thinks the males are using these  early excursions as an opportunity to establish their territories and to  see which females will be available in preparation for groundhog-mating  season, which officially begins in early March. <\/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 2\/04\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the shadow, male groundhogs are looking for love when they emerge from their burrows in early February. Stamatis Zervanos, a biologist at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, studied 32 free-ranging groundhogs over four hibernation seasons. He found that male &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=328\">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-328","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\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}