{"id":350,"date":"2012-02-15T20:51:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=350"},"modified":"2012-02-15T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:00:48","slug":"road-access-introduce-chimpanzees-to-foreign-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/15\/road-access-introduce-chimpanzees-to-foreign-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Road access introduce Chimpanzees to foreign disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road intrusions into natural habitat space facilitate increased human\u00a0activity in the\u00a0area, due to the increased ease of\u00a0access. When humans arrive, they bring their sicknesses and germs with them.\u00a0This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OMPNkkSneKk\">video<\/a>\u00a0explains how efforts to increase human tourist traffic\u00a0are introducing the\u00a0chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania to fatal\u00a0illnesses,\u00a0and can serve\u00a0as\u00a0a valuable case study in road&#8217;s impacts on the health of wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road intrusions into natural habitat space facilitate increased human\u00a0activity in the\u00a0area, due to the increased ease of\u00a0access. When humans arrive, they bring their sicknesses and germs with them.\u00a0This\u00a0video\u00a0explains how efforts to increase human tourist traffic\u00a0are introducing the\u00a0chimpanzees of the Mahale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/15\/road-access-introduce-chimpanzees-to-foreign-disease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}