{"id":217098,"date":"2025-07-03T06:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/light-pollution-has-more-dramatic-effect-on-circadian-rhythms-of-social-birds-than-isolated-birds-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:25:21","slug":"light-pollution-has-more-dramatic-effect-on-circadian-rhythms-of-social-birds-than-isolated-birds-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/light-pollution-has-more-dramatic-effect-on-circadian-rhythms-of-social-birds-than-isolated-birds-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Light pollution has more dramatic effect on circadian rhythms of social birds than isolated birds, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-pollution-has-more-dramatic-effect-on-circadian-rhythms-of-social-birds-than-isolated-birds-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a widespread phenomenon in areas with dense human populations. Normally, animals use natural external cues, like sunlight and temperature, to synchronize their biological rhythms with the day-night cycle. However, ALAN is known to affect the biological rhythms of animals living within its range by altering physiological, molecular and behavioral mechanisms related to sleep-wake cycles (circadian rhythms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a widespread phenomenon in areas with dense human populations. Normally, animals use natural external cues, like sunlight and temperature, to synchronize their biological rhythms with the day-night cycle. However, ALAN is known to affect the biological rhythms of animals living within its range by altering physiological, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217098","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}