{"id":2871,"date":"2023-03-30T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/asexual-lizards-stressed-by-military-overeating-to-cope-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:00:59","slug":"asexual-lizards-stressed-by-military-overeating-to-cope-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/asexual-lizards-stressed-by-military-overeating-to-cope-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatable Overeating isn&#8217;t just for stressed-out humans, it seems. According to a new study published in Frontiers in\u00a0Amphibian and Reptile Science, it&#8217;s also the preferred coping mechanism of a certain population of the Colorado checkered whiptail \u2014 a rare type of asexual lizard in the Centennial state \u2014 that, as the result of noisy flyovers conducted by the US military&#8217;s nearby Fort Carson, overeats to manage its noise-induced stress. &#8220;Here we show that noise disturbance does have measurable physiological impacts on Colorado checkered whiptails,&#8221; study lead Megen Kepas, a doctoral student at Utah State University, said in a press release. &#8220;We also show that they are somewhat resilient and may compensate for this to some degree by [altering] their feeding and movement behavior.&#8221; &#8220;Somewhat&#8221; resilient, but keeps on keeping on by snacking through the anxiety of it all? Same. Lizards Who Lunch The whiptail community \u2014\u00a0of which every single critter is an asexually-reproducing female \u2014 arguably deserves a little more respect from the area&#8217;s military body, considering that the US Army, according to the press release, has the lady lizards listed as a &#8220;species at risk.&#8221; (The whiptail is also considered a &#8220;species of concern&#8221; by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife association, per the release.) To conduct the study, the scientists first had army pilots abstain from flying any craft over base land for several days. Then, for a three-day period following, pilots flew scheduled flights over a certain 0.002-square-mile chunk of the 212-square-mile base. On non-flyover days, the area&#8217;s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/lizards-stressed-military-overeating\">Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatable Overeating isn&#8217;t just for stressed-out humans, it seems. According to a new study published in Frontiers in\u00a0Amphibian and Reptile Science, it&#8217;s also the preferred coping mechanism of a certain&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,89,90,95,94,92,91,88,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}