{"id":341136,"date":"2010-02-19T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f1ec047970c"},"modified":"2010-02-19T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:30:44","slug":"your-morning-adorable-persistent-tortoise-chases-a-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341136","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Persistent tortoise chases a tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Ex38_G3kHA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Ex38_G3kHA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we admire, it&#8217;s an animal with determination.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ed here, for example. Ed, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_Spurred_Tortoise\">African spurred tortoise<\/a>, is native to the Sahara desert and the Sahel &#8212; both places he&#8217;d be unlikely to ever encounter a tomato.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that it&#8217;s not a food he&#8217;d eat in his natural habitat, Ed is perhaps the world&#8217;s <em>biggest<\/em> fan of tomatoes. He&#8217;s enough of a fan to chase one for a solid two minutes &#8212; admirable persistence, we think. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently tortoise tomato-chasing isn&#8217;t all that unusual; another YouTube video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h_N_rjkdcKU\">shows a Russian tortoise having the very same battle of wills<\/a> with a rolling cherry tomato. If there were a Tortoise Olympics, we suspect tomato-rolling would be its most popular event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss a single adorable animal:<\/strong> <strong>Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: mecpublications via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mecpublications\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we admire, it&#8217;s an animal with determination. Like Ed here, for example. Ed, an African spurred tortoise, is native to the Sahara desert and the Sahel &#8212; both places he&#8217;d be unlikely to ever encounter a tomato. Despite the fact that it&#8217;s not a food he&#8217;d eat in his natural habitat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}