{"id":1063,"date":"2014-12-10T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:55:35","slug":"himalayan-hill-partridge-in-a-wild-pear-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan hill partridge in a wild pear tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1065\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/partridge-pear_lowres-e1418241391902.jpg\" alt=\"Himalayanpartridgepear_2013KAnandakuttan\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arborophila torqueola (hill partridge)<\/p>\n<p>Pyrus pashia (wild Himalayan pear)<\/p>\n<p>Illustration by K Anandakuttan<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the Himalayas: a\u00a0&#8220;biodiversity hotspot&#8221;, meeting a high threshold \u00a0of unique life (more than 1,500 endemic plant species), and habitat loss (more than 70%). Inspired by the season and familiar verse&#8230; and science. This partridge in a pear tree lives in the distant Himalayan foothills.<\/p>\n<p>There are 34 biodiversity hotspots around the world. To learn more, I suggest:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Encyclopedia of Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/view\/article\/150569\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eoearth.org<\/a>\u00a0(Encyclopedia of Earth)<\/p>\n<p>Norman Myers,\u00a0\u201cHotspots: Earth\u2019s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions\u201d is the basis for international conservation efforts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arborophila torqueola (hill partridge) Pyrus pashia (wild Himalayan pear) Illustration by K Anandakuttan Highlighting the Himalayas: a\u00a0&#8220;biodiversity hotspot&#8221;, meeting a high threshold \u00a0of unique life (more than 1,500 endemic plant species), and habitat loss (more than 70%). Inspired by the season and familiar verse&#8230; and science. This partridge in a pear tree lives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,7,8],"tags":[236,47,237,238,239],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-habitat-conservation","category-science","category-sketchbook","tag-biodiversity-hotspot","tag-conservation","tag-himalayas","tag-partridge","tag-pear-tree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/partridge-pear_lowres-e1418241391902.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}