{"id":52,"date":"2008-10-23T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-10-23T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:30:26","slug":"snow-leopard-scat-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/2008\/10\/23\/snow-leopard-scat-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow leopard scat is key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a matetr of fact, the faeces from this big cat (the snow leopard) just acquired a higher status. A scietifical study just showed that a genetic analysis of the dejections of this animal allow a very precise identification (sometimes down to the individual identification) and give an excellent capacity to evaluate the bio-diversity and to count individual animals.<\/p>\n<p>It becomes possible to correct previous estimates (some scats were simply from other wild cats like lynxes) or to measure precisely the genetic diversity of a population of snow leopards.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.newscientist.com\/channel\/earth\/mg20026782.600-snow-leopard-numbers-can-be-read-in-their-scat.html?feedId=earth_rss20\">NewScientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a matetr of fact, the faeces from this big cat (the snow leopard) just acquired a higher status. A scietifical study just showed that a genetic analysis of the dejections of this animal allow a very precise identification (sometimes down to the individual identification) and give an excellent capacity to evaluate the bio-diversity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-leopard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}