{"id":27830,"date":"2017-11-13T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=27830"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T04:04:19","slug":"owls-r-not-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/13\/owls-r-not-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls Are Not Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000XUDGIU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000XUDGIU&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=71bf6ea344888fe291ef18920380c643\">Owls Aren&#8217;t Wise &amp; Bats Aren&#8217;t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000XUDGIU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Warner Shedd, with illustratins by Trudy Nicholson, is a pretty good book on fallacies in nature, things people believe that are not true.  I.e., that owls are wise or that bats are blind.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that porcupines throw quills at you when they are upset? If you did, then you knew something <em>wrong<\/em> and you better get this book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing a major thing on fallacies, and I will be mining a few examples from this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owls Aren&#8217;t Wise &amp; Bats Aren&#8217;t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife by Warner Shedd, with illustratins by Trudy Nicholson, is a pretty good book on fallacies in nature, things people believe that are not true. I.e., that owls are wise or that bats are blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[971,1134,1703,4959,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Falsehoods_In_Nature_Book_Greg_Ladens_Blog.png?fit=450%2C368&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7eS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27837,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions\/27837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}