{"id":179820,"date":"2017-10-17T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/17\/i-have-a-script-treatment-for-the-sharknado-xix\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:38:00","slug":"i-have-a-script-treatment-for-the-sharknado-xix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/17\/i-have-a-script-treatment-for-the-sharknado-xix\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have a Script Treatment for the Sharknado XIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that scientists have discovered that sometimes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/17\/alligators-sharks-florida-us-study\">alligators hunt and kill sharks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">American alligators are frequently seen ambling around golf courses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> as players warily compete their rounds. But new research suggests the reptiles partake in a far more outlandish habit when away from the greens \u2013 eating sharks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">US researchers have documented instances of alligators preying upon small sharks along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. A study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1656\/058.016.0306\">published in the journal Southeastern Naturalist<\/a>, claims to be the first scientific study of the largely unseen struggle between the two feared predators.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe frequency of one predator eating the other is really about size dynamic,\u201d said James Nifong, a researcher at Kansas State University. \u201cIf a small shark swims by an alligator and the alligator feels like it can take the shark down, it will, but we also reviewed some old stories about larger sharks eating smaller alligators.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nature in all its glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that scientists have discovered that sometimes, alligators hunt and kill sharks: American alligators are frequently seen ambling around golf courses in Florida as players warily compete their rounds. But new research suggests the reptiles partake in a far more outlandish habit when away from the greens \u2013 eating sharks.US researchers have documented instances &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,625,421],"class_list":["post-179820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-nature","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}