{"id":109060,"date":"2020-06-24T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-declare-an-unprecedented-anthropause-due-to-the-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:03:35","slug":"scientists-declare-an-unprecedented-anthropause-due-to-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-declare-an-unprecedented-anthropause-due-to-the-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Declare an Unprecedented \u2018Anthropause\u2019 Due to The Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-declare-an-unprecedented-anthropause-due-to-the-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"pandemic\">pandemic<\/a> isn\u2019t just affecting humans, it\u2019s also impacting wildlife. As the world locks down to avoid further spread of the devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a>, there are suddenly far fewer cars on the road, planes in the sky and ships in the water. And nature has surely noticed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHr6aFr_icU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Recently, pumas have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dHr6aFr_icU\">been spotted<\/a> ambling down the streets of Santiago, Chile and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article241616581.html\">coyotes have been combing through San Francisco<\/a>, while rats have grown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-cdc-is-warning-people-about-an-increase-in-aggressive-rat-behaviour-due-to-shutdown\">increasingly aggressive<\/a> in their hunt for ever-dwindling scraps, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/macaque-fight-thailand-temple-coronavirus.html\">starving urban monkey gangs<\/a> brawl over diminishing resources.<\/p>\n<p>Some people started calling it the \u2018Great Pause\u2019. Now, scientists have come up with a more precise and technical way to describe these exceptional circumstances, outlining what we might learn from their effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current pandemic isn\u2019t just affecting humans, it\u2019s also impacting wildlife. As the world locks down to avoid further spread of the devastating coronavirus, there are suddenly far fewer cars on the road, planes in the sky and ships in the water. And nature has surely noticed. Recently, pumas have been spotted ambling down the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}