{"id":417615,"date":"2022-01-10T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=417615"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:48:08","slug":"unexpected-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/unexpected-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When biologist Felipe Amorim first questioned how the strange flowers of the <em>Scybalium fungiforme <\/em>are pollinated, he only knew one thing for certain: the evidence pointed to non-flying mammals. His infrared cameras later captured footage of possums, which came as quite a surprise\u2014although they fit the description, they were not previously known to be pollinators. But an even bigger surprise was to come. The following year, a higher-quality camera and more hours of video revealed that bats of the <em>Glossophaga soricina<\/em> species hover like hummingbirds and then land with wings outspread to sip the nectar, a manner of feeding never seen before. It turns out some of the plant\u2019s pollinators do fly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image submitted by Felipe Amorim of S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu campus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When biologist Felipe Amorim first questioned how the strange flowers of the Scybalium fungiforme are pollinated, he only knew one thing for certain: the evidence pointed to non-flying mammals. His infrared cameras later captured footage of possums, which came as quite a surprise\u2014although they fit the description, they were not previously known to be pollinators&#8230;. <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/unexpected-feast\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":417778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[206,209,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-417615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photolab","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417615","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=417615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418226,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417615\/revisions\/418226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417615"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=417615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}