{"id":263,"date":"2003-09-04T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=263"},"modified":"2003-09-04T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T13:03:00","slug":"borneo-elephants-gain-subspecies-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Borneo elephants gain subspecies status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>D<\/span>NA sampling seems to confirm that Borneo elephants are (or rather <em>have become<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/3078680.stm\">a subspecies of the elephant race<\/a>: apparantly Borneo elephants were seperated from their relatives about 300,000 years ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>Borneo&#8217;s &#8216;pygmee&#8217; elephants are significantly smaller, have relatively bigger ears, larger tails and are generally better-tempered. The WWF has called for protection of the elephants:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;In Borneo the main threat is habitat loss, particularly for cash crops like oil palm and other crops which can attract the elephants. They&#8217;re not helped by their lack of aggression. When someone approaches they don&#8217;t charge but often back away, almost apologetically, and that increases their vulnerability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA sampling seems to confirm that Borneo elephants are (or rather have become) a subspecies of the elephant race: apparantly Borneo elephants were seperated from their relatives about 300,000 years ago. Borneo&#8217;s &#8216;pygmee&#8217; elephants are significantly smaller, have relatively bigger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}