{"id":1497,"date":"2013-11-06T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:37:53","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-orca-attracting-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-orca-attracting-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don’t Go In The Water: Orca-attracting Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do Australians taste like seal?<\/p><\/div>\n

The Australian reports on how University of Western Australian scientists are looking into using orca “screams” to chase sharks from beaches<\/a>, which still doesn’t seem like a fun day on the beach.<\/p>\n

[Marine biologist and shark conservationist Brad Norman]\u00c2\u00a0 said the project could interrupt eco-systems and also questioned the effectiveness of such a measure.<\/p>\n

“Before the program is implemented there needs to be a review as to how this type of research and technology may have a negative effect on non-targeted species,” he told The Australian.<\/p>\n

“It could have widespread unintended effects. “One of the concerns I have would be the non-discriminatory effect. Other species are going to hear the threat of the killer whales,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make sense, but I’d like to seem them try the experiment.<\/p>\n

Then again…on one ocean-fearing hand, I wonder if I really have a problem with those consequences, but on the other getting eaten-fearing\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if it would attract orcas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Screaming orcas would kind of keep me off the beach too, I guess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-o9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}