{"id":2909,"date":"2013-08-31T11:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-08-31T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T15:41:38","slug":"a-taxonomic-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/a-taxonomic-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"A taxonomic misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilogs.com\/six_incredible_things_before_breakfast\/morsels-for-the-mind-3082013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm Campbell&#8217;s (highly recommended) weekly science link collection<\/a>\u00a0this morning, and came across an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/how-unicorns-evolved-into-rhinos-goblin-sharks--olinguitos\" target=\"_blank\">Nautilus on the newly described olinguito species<\/a>. I was really enjoying the article, until the third to last paragraph, which triggered a bit of Twitter rant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/BioInFocus\/a-rant-about-new-species-discovery<\/p>\n<p>I guess I hadn&#8217;t resolved all my earlier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/does-rarity-really-make-things-more-interesting\/\" target=\"_blank\">issues with mammal bias&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/duty_calls.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oops.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing Malcolm Campbell&#8217;s (highly recommended) weekly science link collection\u00a0this morning, and came across an article in Nautilus on the newly described olinguito species. I was really enjoying the article, until the third to last paragraph, which triggered a bit of Twitter rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,29,348,379],"tags":[48,370,597,198],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-blogosphere","category-rant","category-taxonomy-in-the-news","tag-mammal","tag-new-species","tag-taxonomy","tag-twitter","category-75-id","category-29-id","category-348-id","category-379-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}