{"id":4773,"date":"2016-04-12T23:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:49:58","slug":"this-is-pretty-crabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/this-is-pretty-crabby\/","title":{"rendered":"This is pretty crabby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen waters off the coast of Panama have been captured on <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/161655689\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during a recent diving expedition. The crabs were identified by DNA as <em>Pleuroncodes planipes<\/em>, or Tuna Crabs, which have never been seen in waters so far south. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lead author, Jes\u00fas Pineda, said \u201cwhen we dove down in the submarine, we noticed the water became murkier as we got closer to the bottom.\u201d He continued on to say \u201call of the sudden we saw these things. At first, we thought they were biogenic rocks or structures. Once we saw them moving &#8211; swarming like insects &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t believe it.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers believe the crabs were seeking refuge from predators in the low-oxygen waters.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/283\/1827\/20160216\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PeerJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>April 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\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jes\u00fas Pineda, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen waters off the coast of Panama have been captured on video during a recent diving expedition. The crabs were identified by DNA as Pleuroncodes planipes, or Tuna Crabs, which have never been seen in waters so far south. The lead author, Jes\u00fas Pineda, said \u201cwhen we dove down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[39,170,2524],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biodiversity","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1eZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}