{"id":11436,"date":"2017-11-09T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T19:44:24","slug":"new-species-of-orangutan-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-species-of-orangutan-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New species of orangutan discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A population of orangutans has been studied and determined to be a distinct species, Tapanuli orangutans. They live on the island of Sumatra, which is part of Indonesia. Unfortunately there are less than 800 of them, which makes them endangered. Here&#8217;s the story from CTV News:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/scientists-discover-new-orangutan-species-in-sumatra-1.3661635\">Scientists discover new orangutan species in Sumatra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the Indonesian government will take steps to protect these creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A population of orangutans has been studied and determined to be a distinct species, Tapanuli orangutans. They live on the island of Sumatra, which is part of Indonesia. Unfortunately there are less than 800 of them, which makes them endangered. Here&#8217;s the story from CTV News: Scientists discover new orangutan species in Sumatra Hopefully the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-great-apes","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}