{"id":91,"date":"2012-08-18T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/quail-are-not-very-smart.html"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:08:34","slug":"quail-are-not-very-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/quail-are-not-very-smart.html","title":{"rendered":"Quail are not very smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Colinus virginianus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7807779398\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef016769590e94970b\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7259\/7807779398_3b60354e5f_z.jpg\"\nborder=\"0\" alt=\"Colinus virginianus\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> In today&#8217;s episode of The Tractor Naturalist, a doughty quail dares the mighty machine to catch it! Well, either that, or quail are just not very smart. I thought this Colinus virginianus might run ahead all the way to the house.<\/p>\n<p>See the bobwhite run! Would it have run faster if Brown Dog and Yellow Dog had been chasing it? Caution: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bGM-z56WVkg\"> this video is loud.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGM-z56WVkg\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small> Colinus virginianus <br \/>John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, <br \/> Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 August 2012. <\/small><\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In today&#8217;s episode of The Tractor Naturalist, a doughty quail dares the mighty machine to catch it! Well, either that, or quail are just not very smart. I thought this Colinus virginianus might run ahead all the way to the house. See the bobwhite run! Would it have run faster if Brown Dog and Yellow [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[64,6],"tags":[244,2781,322,24,323,3,23,5,2,2760,321,25],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-18-august-2012","tag-birds","tag-bob-white","tag-brown-dog","tag-colinus-virginianus","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-quail","tag-yellow-dog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}