{"id":491,"date":"2003-04-22T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:03","slug":"length-does-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"length does matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A study by biologists at Tufts University has  found that female fireflies prefer males with longer-lasting flashes. It  seems that a longer flash is related to the quality of the &#8220;nuptial  gift&#8221; he can give to his mate, report Sara Lewis  and Christopher  Cratsley  in the January-February issue of <em>Behavioral Ecology.<\/em> When  fireflies mate, not only do males give the females their sperm, but they  also provide a spermatophore, a high-protein nutritional package that  females eat and use to provide for their offspring. By measuring the  duration of a male&#8217;s flashes and comparing them to spermatophore size,  the researchers discovered that the length of a male firefly&#8217;s flash can  predict the quality of the nuptial gift he can deliver. <\/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 4\/22\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by biologists at Tufts University has found that female fireflies prefer males with longer-lasting flashes. It seems that a longer flash is related to the quality of the &#8220;nuptial gift&#8221; he can give to his mate, report Sara &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=491\">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-491","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\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}