{"id":26160,"date":"2020-01-12T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26160"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:07:09","slug":"this-weird-echidna-is-the-result-of-one-of-the-best-fire-survival-tactics-weve-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26160","title":{"rendered":"This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We&#8217;ve Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flat_Echidna.png\" alt=\"Weird Echidna\" class=\"wp-image-26161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flat_Echidna.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flat_Echidna-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flat_Echidna-768x311.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amber Day wrote:<br> I have been concerned about our echidnas and how they have fared in the catastrophic fires and then this popped up\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Echidnas don&#8217;t try to escape a fire, instead they bury themselves as deep as they can into a cool, protective soil, take a nap, and wait for the flames to all blow over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this is no ordinary nap. It&#8217;s similar to hibernation, but a shorter and shallower state called torpor. It allows echidnas to lower their body temperature and their metabolic rate, so that they can conserve energy while out-waiting danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom: I was wondering about this technique last week when thinking of what to do if I were caught in those horrific circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-echidna-got-its-spikes-burnt-off-in-a-bushfire-and-we-can-t-stop-staring\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-echidna-got-its-spikes-burnt-off-in-a-bushfire-and-we-can-t-stop-staring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Day wrote: I have been concerned about our echidnas and how they have fared in the catastrophic fires and then this popped up\u2026 Echidnas don&#8217;t try to escape a fire, instead they bury themselves as deep as they can into a cool, protective soil, take a nap, and wait for the flames to all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We&#8217;ve Heard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26162,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions\/26162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}