{"id":148406,"date":"2014-04-23T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=148406"},"modified":"2014-06-23T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:12:45","slug":"mystery-orange-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/mystery-orange-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of the orange bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-148407\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fotolab_Morcego.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fotolab_Morcego.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fotolab_Morcego-120x160.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fotolab_Morcego-250x334.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>The unusual orange color of this bat (<em>Phyllostomus hastatus<\/em>)\u00a0 has intrigued researchers at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) Rio Claro, in inland S\u00e3o Paulo State.\u00a0 Its color may be attributed to hormonal characteristics, nutrition or even the bat\u2019s exposure to high concentrations of ammonia.\u00a0 The pregnant female specimen was captured by trained professionals during the project conducted by biologist Renata Muylaert, who studies how these mammals are responding to the loss of habitat in the remnants of the S\u00e3o Paulo Cerrado.\u00a0 Muylaert is pursuing a master\u2019s degree in zoology under the advisorship of Professor Milton Cezar Ribeiro, of Unesp, and co-advisorship of Richard Stevens from Texas Tech University.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo by F\u00e1bio Martins Labecca was submitted by Renata Muylaert of the Unesp Rio Claro Space Ecology and Conservation Laboratory.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you have a picture related to research, send it to: <a href=\"mailto: imagempesquisa@fapesp.br\" target=\"_blank\">imagempesquisa@fapesp.br<\/a>, resolution 300 dpi (width: 15 cm) or at least 5 MB.\u00a0Your work may be selected by the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mystery of the orange bat","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[209,224,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-148406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photolab","tag-biology","tag-ecology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148406"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=148406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}