{"id":1332,"date":"2006-06-15T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2006-06-15T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T08:56:51","slug":"crows-1-internet-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Crows 1, Internet 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reminders to the human race of how much more powerful &#8220;Nature&#8221; is than its technology are never a bad thing, so one has to laugh that Tokyo is unable to control its crows, which are <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,25689-2225937,00.html\">eating up its fibre-optic cable links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crows have discovered that the broadband cables, which are strung from telegraph poles across Tokyo, are the perfect consistency for building nests&#8230;.Engineers called out to repair crow-ravaged cables say that the centre of destruction is generally around junction boxes, where an average of 30 cables meet and provide rich pickings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following earlier problems, the city had trapped 11,000 crows in a drive to reduce the population. They were, however, immediately replaced by crows flying in from the countryside.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be a horror movie in there somewhere &#8230; Perhaps it isn&#8217;t the cockroaches that will take over from us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminders to the human race of how much more powerful &#8220;Nature&#8221; is than its technology are never a bad thing, so one has to laugh that Tokyo is unable to control its crows, which are eating up its fibre-optic cable links. Crows have discovered that the broadband cables, which are strung from telegraph poles across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","category-science","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}