{"id":130,"date":"2023-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"2023-11-12T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T01:12:47","slug":"adorable-baby-mountain-scops-owl-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/adorable-baby-mountain-scops-owl-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable baby mountain scops owl in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/not-much-longer-baby-owl-looks-terrified-undergoes-health-check\/\">Original article<\/a> &#8211; 29 Jun 2022 &#8211; by Marcus Parekh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/qR6zX8J.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leofoo Village Theme Park, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Taiwanese conservationists have released adorable pictures of a baby mountain scops owl being weighed during routine health checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tiny owl was photographed wrapped in a cloth while a member of staff checked on its health, at a theme park and safari in Hsinchu county in Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owl weighed a whopping 76 grams (2.68oz). Typically, adult mountain scops owls only grow to 110 grams and measure just 20cm long. They can live for up to ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2cPTKad.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Native to southern China and south-east Asia, the baby mountain scops owl usually lives in humid forests and forages for beetles and moths to eat in the dense undergrowth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owls are weighed at birth in order to ensure they are healthy and well nourished, giving them the best chance to survive to adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leofoo Village Theme Park, where the photographs were taken, is home to a wide variety of bird species and is one of the top tourist attractions in Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udde1\ud83e\udd89 #owlsintowels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article &#8211; 29 Jun 2022 &#8211; by Marcus Parekh Leofoo Village Theme Park, Taiwan \ud83e\udde1\ud83e\udd89 #owlsintowels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,98,7,97],"tags":[10,38,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}