{"id":929,"date":"2008-12-28T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2008-12-29T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T05:40:20","slug":"animal-ingenuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Animal ingenuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/dolphin_sponge.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>Maternal influence as it relates to learned behavior is a subject that many Quarter Horse breeders give scant thought to in these days of embryo transfer and surrogate dams. But a recent article in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> testifies to the importance of maternal influence within at least one family of mammals. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123013471543833011.html\">here <\/a>to read &#8220;Among Dolphins, Tool-Using Handymen are Women,&#8221; by Robert Lee Hotz.<\/p>\n<p>The article is about an extended family of wild bottlenose dolphins in Australia&#8217;s Shark Bay that uses small basket sponges, which they gather on the bottom of the bay, to protect their noses as they forage for food on the seafloor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maternal influence as it relates to learned behavior is a subject that many Quarter Horse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}