{"id":45925,"date":"2011-09-23T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=45925"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:47:29","slug":"freaky-friday-fun-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/sexuality\/freaky-friday-fun-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Freaky Friday Fun Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To impress females, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hancockhouse.com\/products\/houbus_pics.htm\">male houbara bustards<\/a> strut, run, flash feathers and emit subsonic booms 18 hours a day for half a year. In young males, the more elaborate the display, the better the sperm. But extravagance has a cost. Scientists in Morocco found that after six years [or four years, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/science\/2011\/08\/macho-birds-age-faster\/\">this post<\/a>], the most flamboyant males produce a greater proportion of abnormal sperm than do their duller counterparts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine: To impress females, male houbara bustards strut, run, flash feathers and emit subsonic booms 18 hours a day for half a year. In young males, the more elaborate the display, the better the sperm. But extravagance has a cost. Scientists in Morocco found that after six years &#8230; <a title=\"Freaky Friday Fun Fact\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/sexuality\/freaky-friday-fun-fact\/\" aria-label=\"More on Freaky Friday Fun Fact\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}