{"id":17245,"date":"2021-12-16T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:46:41","slug":"what-are-you-doing-to-keep-a-baby-rat-from-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/12\/16\/what-are-you-doing-to-keep-a-baby-rat-from-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you doing to keep a baby rat from dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aw121621-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aw121621-1.jpg\" alt=\"What are you doing to keep a baby rat from dying? The rat infant mortality rate here is disgusting.\" class=\"wp-image-17242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aw121621-1.jpg 314w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aw121621-1-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>What are <strong>you<\/strong> doing to keep a baby rat from dying? The rat infant mortality rate here is disgusting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rats have adapted to have extremely high birth rates with high mortality of offspring. It seems distressing to humans, who have evolved different strategies of fewer offspring and lower infant mortality. But it is a common strategy for rodents. (See: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ReproStrat)\">bit.ly\/ReproStrat)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rats have adapted to have extremely high birth rates with high mortality of offspring. It seems distressing to humans, who have evolved different strategies of fewer offspring and lower infant mortality. But it is a common strategy for rodents. (See: bit.ly\/ReproStrat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17247,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}