{"id":12276,"date":"2016-12-27T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2018-08-09T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:20:45","slug":"professor-catherine-west-alaska-radio-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/2016\/12\/27\/professor-catherine-west-alaska-radio-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Catherine West Alaska radio interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\">New squirrels on the block? Not so fast, researchers say<\/h3>\n<div id=\"single-below-header\"><span class=\"meta-author vcard author\"><span class=\"fn\">By Shahla Farzan, KBBI-Homer, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-date date updated\">December 19, 2016<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"meta-category\">Featured News, Outdoors, Science &amp; Tech, Southcentral, Wildlife<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Catherine West, a research assistant professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University,\u00a0said\u00a0Arctic ground squirrels are voracious grazers and can strip an area of vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll prey on bird eggs and even on small birds and baby birds,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n<p>The squirrels are commonly found across the far north of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>For years, biologists believed humans introduced the squirrels to Gulf of Alaska islands in the late 1800s as food for fox farms.\u00a0 New research on Chirikof Island, southwest of Kodiak, however, suggests the squirrels have lived there for much longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Click here to hear the interview.<\/strong>\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktoo.org\/2016\/12\/19\/new-squirrels-block-not-fast-researchers-say\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ktoo.org\/2016\/12\/19\/new-squirrels-block-not-fast-researchers-say\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New squirrels on the block? Not so fast, researchers say By Shahla Farzan, KBBI-Homer, December 19, 2016 Featured News, Outdoors, Science &amp; Tech, Southcentral, Wildlife Catherine West, a research assistant professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University,\u00a0said\u00a0Arctic ground squirrels are voracious grazers and can strip an area of vegetation. \u201cThey\u2019ll prey on bird eggs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4062,4078,4069],"tags":[3864,4162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13649,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions\/13649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}