{"id":408,"date":"2013-01-13T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2013-01-13T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:49:00","slug":"nature-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/nature-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan_12-033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan_12-033-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jan_12 033\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan_12-033-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan_12-033.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>An almost imperceptible flattening of leaves is often all you see of the discrete, but discernible, trails through the forest.  As I followed one this morning, I suddenly realised why (judging by the poop) the kangaroos, horses and foxes follow the track.  I had previously wondered why the animals just didn&#8217;t roam everywhere through the forest &#8211; giving them access to a wider range of plants and more food.  Today I noticed how quiet it was walking on the track compared to off it with the leaves flattened and compressed into the dirt.  If a prey animal is downwind and can move quietly on a known path, it has a better chance of survival, for the predator, if it can move quickly and quietly it is more likely to get its prey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost imperceptible flattening of leaves is often all you see of the discrete, but discernible, trails through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan_12-033.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}