{"id":1275,"date":"2009-01-23T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2009-01-23T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:32:11","slug":"charging-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/01\/23\/charging-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Charging Penguins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll never see a penguin soaring in the sky since they&#8217;re one of many groups of flightless birds (can you think of others?).\u00a0\u00a0 With their dense torpedo-shaped bodies, penguins are adapted for speedy swimming, and do all of their flying underwater.\u00a0 But did you know they can also run? Enjoy this video of a penguin chase taken while MLML alum Cassandra Brooks was down in Antarctica.\u00a0 Two Gentoo penguin chicks are running after their mom &#8211; and they&#8217;re about as (un)coordinated as some human kids I know!\u00a0 Why do you think they&#8217;re in such a hurry?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTCs_FdbBM8]<\/p>\n<p><span>Filmed at the Copacabana field camp on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Video by Lara Asato, 2006. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll never see a penguin soaring in the sky since they&#8217;re one of many groups of flightless birds (can you think of others?).\u00a0\u00a0 With their dense torpedo-shaped bodies, penguins are adapted for speedy swimming, and do all of their flying underwater.\u00a0 But did you know they can also run? Enjoy this video of a penguin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}