{"id":1874,"date":"2009-09-25T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2009-09-25T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:26:05","slug":"new-spider-species-an-homage-to-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/09\/25\/new-spider-species-an-homage-to-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"New spider species an homage to David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Here\u2019s an interesting tidbit for your Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01476\/bowie_1476453c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter img-fluid\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01476\/bowie_1476453c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\"><\/a>A new species of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sparassidae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparassid<\/a> spider (pictured) from Malaysia has been named after David Bowie. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senckenberg.de\/root\/index.php?page_id=220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter J\u00e4ger<\/a>, an arachnologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senckenberg.de\/root\/index.php?lang=de&amp;page_id=28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senckenberg <\/a>research institute in Germany, says he named the spider \u2014\u00a0 <em>Heteropoda davidbowie<\/em> \u2014 after the English rock star in an effort to raise awareness about endangered spiders. Bowie\u2019s 1972 album, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/a>, earned him this honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It\u2019s tough for spiders to make endangered species lists, J\u00e4ger says, so they can use all the publicity they can get. The Guardian reports that there are fewer than 500 individuals of <em>H.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em> davidbowie <\/em>left in the wild, as its island habitat is cleared for resorts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an interesting tidbit for your Friday. A new species of sparassid spider (pictured) from Malaysia has been named after David Bowie. Peter J\u00e4ger, an arachnologist at the Senckenberg research institute in Germany, says he named the spider \u2014\u00a0 Heteropoda davidbowie \u2014 after the English rock star in an effort to raise awareness about endangered spiders. Bowie\u2019s 1972 album, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,48],"tags":[7,354,63,12],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-and-society","tag-conservation","tag-david-bowie","tag-endangered-species","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}