{"id":62885,"date":"2023-07-01T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=62885"},"modified":"2023-07-01T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T14:00:32","slug":"commentary-do-singapore-residents-overreact-in-fear-when-encountering-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=62885","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Do Singapore residents overreact in fear when encountering wildlife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pythons and monitor lizards have provoked strong reactions from the people who encountered them in Singapore. This fear stems from our isolation from them, says Herpetological Society of Singapore\u2019s Sankar Ananthanarayanan.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/singapore-wildlife-python-monitor-lizard-fear-urban-landscape-biodiversity-3596711\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pythons and monitor lizards have provoked strong reactions from the people who encountered them in Singapore. This fear stems from our isolation from them, says Herpetological Society of Singapore\u2019s Sankar Ananthanarayanan.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":62886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-62885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}