{"id":2137,"date":"2015-01-24T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2015-01-24T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:58:11","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-again-red-backed-fairy-wren-doesnt-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2015\/01\/24\/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-again-red-backed-fairy-wren-doesnt-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"If at first you don&#8217;t succeed &#8211; try, try again: Red-Backed Fairy-wren doesn&#8217;t give-up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2015\/01\/24\/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-again-red-backed-fairy-wren-doesnt-give-up\/105401993-xzrzywsu-redbackfairywren\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2141\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2015\/01\/105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren-1009x1024.jpg\" alt=\"105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren\" width=\"500\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2015\/01\/105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren-1009x1024.jpg 1009w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2015\/01\/105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren-295x300.jpg 295w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2015\/01\/105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren-788x800.jpg 788w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2015\/01\/105401993.XZRzyWsU.RedBackFairyWren.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/share.auditory.ru\/2007\/Tatyana.Polyakova\/English\/11-%20Scientific%20American%20November%202012.pdf\">Learn more about how evolutionary biologists are revising their understanding of how evolution works.<\/a> \u00a0Biologists have described a form of phenotypic plasticity in fairy-wrens. \u00a0The Red-backed fairy wren displays a different feather colour (red and black vs brown) depending on the nature of their social interactions. \u00a0 <em>The type of plumage colour is determined by how much testosterone the male birds have prior to the breeding season.<\/em> \u00a0Testosterone production is regulated by social interactions between the male Red-backed fairy-wrens. \u00a0If the male fairy-wren is higher ranked (more successful \u00a0in attracting female attention) the feather colour becomes brighter. \u00a0The colour change is not permanent. \u00a0Lower ranked male fairy-wrens can change to the bright plumage colour in subsequent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about how evolutionary biologists are revising their understanding of how evolution works. \u00a0Biologists have described a form of phenotypic plasticity in fairy-wrens. \u00a0The Red-backed fairy wren displays a different feather colour (red and black vs brown) depending on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2015\/01\/24\/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-again-red-backed-fairy-wren-doesnt-give-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}