{"id":1684,"date":"2014-12-26T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2014-12-26T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:35:30","slug":"nene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/12\/26\/nene\/","title":{"rendered":"Nene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian geese are surprisingly closely related to <a href=\"\/2014\/03\/17\/canada-goose\/\" title=\"Canada Goose\">Canada geese<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1685\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Havaiian-Goose.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1685\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Havaiian-Goose.jpg\" alt=\"Nene.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1685\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Havaiian-Goose.jpg 600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Havaiian-Goose-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Havaiian-Goose-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian goose (<em>Branta sandvicensis<\/em>), also known as nene, <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/budapest\/budapest-zoo\/\" title=\"Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden\">Budapest Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nIn fact some subspecies of <a href=\"\/2014\/03\/17\/canada-goose\/\" title=\"Canada Goose\">Canada geese<\/a> are genetically closer to the nene than they are to other subspecies of Canada geese.<\/p>\n<p>The split between Canada geese and Hawaiian geese has most likely taken place as recently as only half a million years ago, after which the nene has evolved into a herbivorous bird with a distinct coloration. The nene still can fly, just not as well as the Canada goose, but some of its now extinct relatives were completely flightless.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid evolution of Canada goose into the nene is an example of how quickly a species can change under the right circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawaiian goose or nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nene_(bird)\" title=\"Nene (bird)\" target=\"_blank\">Nene <\/a>on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2002\/02\/0206_020206_canadiangeese.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"State Bird of Hawaii Unmasked as Canadian\">State Bird of Hawaii Unmasked as Canadian<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/datazone\/speciesfactsheet.php?id=383\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hawaiian Goose (Branta\u00a0sandvicensis) - BirdLife species factsheet\">Hawaiian Goose (<em>Branta\u00a0sandvicensis<\/em>)<\/a> on birdlife.org.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian geese are surprisingly closely related to Canada geese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,37,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}