{"id":1419,"date":"2020-10-17T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2020-10-17T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:34:23","slug":"wild-predators-are-relying-more-on-our-food-and-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/10\/17\/wild-predators-are-relying-more-on-our-food-and-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Predators Are Relying More on Our Food\u2014and Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-3.31.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-3.31.29-PM.png 1734w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-3.31.29-PM-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-3.31.29-PM-768x599.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-17-at-3.31.29-PM-1024x798.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">SOME OF NORTH<\/span> America\u2019s big predators\u2014wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, and the like\u2014 are now getting nearly half their food from people. It\u2019s a big shift away from eating foods found in nature and could put them in conflict with one another, or lead to more human-carnivore encounters on running trails or suburban backyards.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of these carnivores studied in the report includes foxes, coyotes, fishers, and martens.<\/p>\n<p>How did they know this? The team used chemical isotopes of carbon taken from the animals\u2019 fur and bone samples to distinguish between human-grown and naturally occurring foods. \u201cHuman foods look like corn, because we give corn to everything,\u201d Manlick says. Corn syrup can be found in many processed foods, while corn grain is fed to beef, chicken, and pork that humans eat. But corn looks very different than natural foods when analyzed in the lab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wild-predators-are-relying-more-on-our-food-and-pets\/\">Wired<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOME OF NORTH America\u2019s big predators\u2014wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, and the like\u2014 are now getting nearly half their food from people. It\u2019s a big shift away from eating foods found in nature and could put them in conflict with one <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/10\/17\/wild-predators-are-relying-more-on-our-food-and-pets\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}