{"id":2250,"date":"2005-02-08T02:55:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T02:55:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T06:55:28","slug":"2250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/2250\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/star-nosed-mole.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/exploration.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/news_mole.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>The marsh-dwelling star-nosed mole<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the weirdest looking creature I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life, and the fastest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A study published this week in the journal Nature reveals that this mysterious mole has moves that put the best magician to shame: The energetic burrower can detect small prey animals and gulp them down with a speed that is literally too fast for the human eye to follow.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a car driver about 650 milliseconds to hit the brake after seeing the traffic light ahead turn red. In only half that time, the star-nosed mole, operating in the Stygian darkness of its burrow, can detect the presence of a tasty tidbit, such as a small insect larva or tiny worm, determine that it is edible and gulp it down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marsh-dwelling star-nosed mole &#8211; the weirdest looking creature I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life, and the fastest. &#8220;A study published this week in the journal Nature reveals that this mysterious mole has moves that put the best magician to shame: The energetic burrower can detect small prey animals and gulp them down with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}