{"id":4251,"date":"2015-08-15T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:25:50","slug":"the-cape-parrot-a-new-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-cape-parrot-a-new-species\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cape Parrot &#8211; a new species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4252\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4252\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4252\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"The Cape Parrot is native to South Africa and lives in forested areas eating fruit and nuts. Pictured above is a male Cape Parrot. (Image Credit: Cyril Laubscher) \" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973-1024x1013.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cape Parrot is native to South Africa and lives in forested areas eating fruit and nuts. Pictured above is a male Cape Parrot. (Image Credit: Cyril Laubscher)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genetic analysis of the Cape parrot, currently considered a <em>Poicephalus robustus<\/em> sub-species, shows that it is genetically distinct from other <em>P. robustus<\/em> subspecies and should be elevated to the species level. The researchers believe this may allow for better planning and implementation of conservation strategies for the Cape Parrot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers genotyped 138 specimens from five Poicephalus species, including two sub-species of <em>P. robustus<\/em>, <em>P. r. fuscicollis<\/em> and<em> P. r. suahelicus.<\/em> The analysis found the most common ancestor between the Cape Parrot and <em>P. r. fuscicollis<\/em> and <em>P. r. suahelicus<\/em> existed in the early Pleistocene, about 2.4 million years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/metrics\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0133376\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandi Willows-Munro, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic analysis of the Cape parrot, currently considered a Poicephalus robustus sub-species, shows that it is genetically distinct from other P. robustus subspecies and should be elevated to the species level. The researchers believe this may allow for better planning and implementation of conservation strategies for the Cape Parrot. The researchers genotyped 138 specimens from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,114],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/96973.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}