{"id":3493,"date":"2023-07-17T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:02:24","slug":"buried-lede-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/07\/buried-lede-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried lede alert: Ducks are Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#x1f6a8;<strong>BURIED LEDE ALERT!!! <\/strong>&#x1f6a8;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title of the article is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jul\/11\/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests\">Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find<\/a>&#8220;\u2014which, yes, is indeed interesting. But then we get to the tenth paragraph or so, which reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/blog-crows-necrophiliac-ducks-image-1024x687.png\" alt=\"Screen cap of a portion of the article, reads as follows: 'Rather than finding old strips of anti-bird spikes at rubbish dumps, Moeliker, who previously won an Ig Nobel prize for documenting the first known case of homosexual necrophilia among ducks, says crows and magpies appear to be finding and removing the metal strips from buildings. \u201cThey are ripping the stuff off. It\u2019s been observed in several kinds of birds,\u201d he said.'\" class=\"wp-image-3494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/blog-crows-necrophiliac-ducks-image-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/blog-crows-necrophiliac-ducks-image-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/blog-crows-necrophiliac-ducks-image-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/blog-crows-necrophiliac-ducks-image.png 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rape&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2005\/mar\/08\/highereducation.research\">Moeliker explains elsewhere<\/a>, &#8220;is a normal reproductive strategy in mallards.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x1f633;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f6a8;BURIED LEDE ALERT!!! &#x1f6a8; The title of the article is &#8220;Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find&#8220;\u2014which, yes, is indeed interesting. But then we get to the tenth paragraph or so, which reads: &#8220;Rape&#8221; Moeliker explains elsewhere, &#8220;is a normal reproductive strategy in mallards.&#8221; &#x1f633;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[920,919,636,921,922,82],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/110731176074593609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}