{"id":3666,"date":"2010-10-19T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:47:50","slug":"learning-to-love-whale-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/learning-to-love-whale-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Love Whale Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whale poop acts like a super charged <strong>power-up<\/strong> for the ocean. When whales feed from the bottom of the ocean they pick up important nutrients, like nitrogen. These nutrients then get shared with other living organisms through the whale\u2019s poop, helping to keep the ocean&#8217;s ecosystem healthy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-31569\" alt=\"humpback_whale_jumping\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humpback_whale_jumping2.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humpback_whale_jumping2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humpback_whale_jumping2-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humpback_whale_jumping2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/10\/101012101255.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/10\/101012101255.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2890 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"95\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What whales give back to the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[92,104,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-3666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-ocean","11":"tag-united-nations","12":"tag-whales"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}