{"id":2026,"date":"2017-12-03T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2018-03-02T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:04:27","slug":"the-evolution-of-anterior-coloration-in-carnivorans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/the-evolution-of-anterior-coloration-in-carnivorans\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of anterior coloration in carnivorans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the spectacled bear have facial stripes? Or why do\u00a0canids have relatively plain faces? In a new article with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wfcb.ucdavis.edu\/people\/faculty\/caro-tim\/caro-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caro<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.csulb.edu\/~tstankow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stankowich<\/a><\/strong> labs, we explored the behavioral factors that might predict the diversity in facial and chest colors in carnivorans. Much to our surprise, we found that there might be different\u00a0factors\u00a0associated with\u00a0the evolution facial and chest coloration in different lineages. Find out more by reading \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Caro-et-al_2017_Anterior-coloration-carnivorans.pdf\">the full article <\/a><\/strong>in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,\u00a0or its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/11\/why-predators-have-such-crazy-faces?utm_source=sciencemagazine&amp;utm_medium=facebook-text&amp;utm_campaign=crazyface-16623\" target=\"_blank\">press coverage from Science<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2029\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2029\" class=\" wp-image-2029\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caro-et-al_2017_Anterior-coloration-carnivorans_Page_3-920x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Caro et al. 2017\" width=\"369\" height=\"410\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caro et al. 2017<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the spectacled bear have facial stripes? Or why do\u00a0canids have relatively plain faces? In a new article with the Caro and Stankowich labs, we explored the behavioral factors that might predict the diversity in facial and chest colors in carnivorans. Much to our surprise, we found that there might be different\u00a0factors\u00a0associated with\u00a0the evolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}