{"id":1797,"date":"2025-08-27T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:20:30","slug":"for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"For Science!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another interesting article that popped up on my feed is that of Pepper, who has become the unexpected provider of data for his human carer. Peppers human, a virologist at the University of Florida named John Lednicky, has identified strains of jeilongvirus and orthoreovirus revealed to be present in prey that Pepper has returned with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information on Peppers discovery here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2025\/07\/cat-discovers-new-virus\/#:~:text=Pepper%2C%20the%20pet%20cat%20who,of%20UF's%20Emerging%20Pathogens%20Institute.\">https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2025\/07\/cat-discovers-new-virus\/#:~:text=Pepper%2C%20the%20pet%20cat%20who,of%20UF&#8217;s%20Emerging%20Pathogens%20Institute.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pepper is unaffected by his continuing quest for scientific discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5896.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5896.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1804\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pepper, hard at work\u2026(Image Source: Instagram.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting article that popped up on my feed is that of Pepper, who has become the unexpected provider of data for his human carer. Peppers human, a virologist at the University of Florida named John Lednicky, has identified strains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}