{"id":37110,"date":"2011-07-17T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/here-be-snow-leopards-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-07-17T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:46:15","slug":"here-be-snow-leopards-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/here-be-snow-leopards-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Here be snow leopards! | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really love the fact that I live in the early 21st century <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/we-live-in-utopia\/\">for a host of reasons<\/a>. That being said, one aspect that&rsquo;s certainly true is that when it comes to charismatic natural variety and geography there are very few &ldquo;blank spots&rdquo; on the map. You can get a sense of what I&rsquo;m talking about if you browse <i>National Geographic<\/i> from the early 20th century. Most of the map had been filled in, but there were still nooks and crannies waiting to be illuminated. So I always find stories like this interesting, because they capture a sliver of the wonder that once was so commonplace, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/07\/110713121430.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\">Snow Leopard Population Discovered in Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>The Wildlife Conservation Society has discovered a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan&rsquo;s Wakhan Corridor, according to a new study.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The paper is in the <i>International Journal of Environmental Studies<\/i>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/00207233.2011.577147\">Saving threatened species in Afghanistan: snow leopards in the Wakhan Corridor<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>The Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan is an area known for relatively abundant wildlife and it appears to represent Afghanistan&rsquo;s most important snow leopard landscape. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been working in Wakhan since 2006. ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cd537_qtWFkgnWGso\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/76029_oWdmi_5aMPk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love the fact that I live in the early 21st century for a host of reasons. That being said, one aspect that&rsquo;s certainly true is that when it comes to charismatic natural variety and geography there are very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/here-be-snow-leopards-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}