{"id":448167,"date":"2022-08-22T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=448167"},"modified":"2022-08-22T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:10:09","slug":"chubby-sharks-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/chubby-sharks-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Chubby sharks in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American way of life seems even to have had an effect on sharks. Researchers from Brazil and the USA found that nurse sharks (<em>Ginglymostoma cirratum<\/em>) living near the city of Miami have more accumulated fat in their bodies than specimens of the same species from waters near environmental conservation areas (<em>Science of the Total Environment<\/em>, July 1, 2021). Nurse sharks are highly sedentary and do not swim long distances. They can therefore be more affected by urbanization. \u201cThis species is found very close to marinas full of boats, fishing debris, and pollution. This environment could be providing more prey and greater protection against predators, which may contribute to the greater accumulation of fat,\u201d lead author Bianca Rangel, a biologist doing a PhD at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) under the supervision of Renata Moreira, told <em>Ag\u00eancia<\/em> <em>FAPESP<\/em>. The phenomenon was not observed in specimens of a much more active species found in the same region, the blacktip shark (<em>Science of the Total Environment<\/em>, June 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurse sharks living near the city of Miami accumulate more fat than their neighbors in environmental conservation areas","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":448176,"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":[1651],"tags":[209,265],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-448167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology","tag-urbanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448167","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=448167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449055,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448167\/revisions\/449055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=448167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}