{"id":1772,"date":"2007-09-28T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/28\/lazy-video-post-head-butt\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T10:46:09","slug":"lazy-video-post-head-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/28\/lazy-video-post-head-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Video Post: Head Butt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a mailing list, two giraffes beating each other up:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C7HCIGFdBt8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C7HCIGFdBt8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that an actual biologist could explain something about what this odd behavior signifies, and there&#8217;s probably some fascinating biophysics in the way that they whip their necks around like that.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, in the end, my main reaction is &#8220;Dude! Head-butting giraffes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(YouTube, of course, provides a wealth of other fighting-giraffe video, including this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=otE9O8hIIBY\">oddly disturbing video of a bald guy beating up a stuffed animal<\/a> in the snow, to the sound of &#8220;Afternoon Delight&#8221; by the Starland Vocal Band. The Internet is an extremely strange place.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a mailing list, two giraffes beating each other up: I&#8217;m sure that an actual biologist could explain something about what this odd behavior signifies, and there&#8217;s probably some fascinating biophysics in the way that they whip their necks around like that. But, really, in the end, my main reaction is &#8220;Dude! Head-butting giraffes!&#8221; (YouTube,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/28\/lazy-video-post-head-butt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lazy Video Post: Head Butt!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}