{"id":38786,"date":"2025-12-23T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38786"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:06:21","slug":"why-scientists-are-performing-brain-surgery-on-monarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38786","title":{"rendered":"Why Scientists Are Performing Brain Surgery on Monarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Scientists Are Performing Brain Surgery on Monarchs<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Scientists in Texas are studying monarch butterflies to understand how they navigate thousands of miles, possibly by sensing Earth\u2019s magnetic field. Alexa Robles-Gil explains how researchers are examining the butterflies\u2019 brains to find answers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alexa Robles-Gil, Leila Medina, Joey Sendaydiego and Mark Felix<\/p>\n<p>December 23, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Why Scientists Are Performing Brain Surgery on Monarchs Scientists in Texas are studying monarch butterflies to understand how they navigate thousands of miles, possibly by sensing Earth\u2019s magnetic field. Alexa Robles-Gil explains how researchers are examining the butterflies\u2019 brains to find answers. By Alexa Robles-Gil, Leila Medina, Joey Sendaydiego and Mark Felix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2121,21165,6717,384,1589],"class_list":{"0":"post-38786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-brain","9":"tag-monarchs","10":"tag-performing","11":"tag-scientists","12":"tag-surgery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}