{"id":1686,"date":"2010-08-02T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T23:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1686"},"modified":"2013-11-10T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T17:37:52","slug":"upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Just a couple of shots which illustrate how restricted we humans are in our sense of vertical direction. In space there is no &#39;upside down&#39;, and neither is there for spiders, moths or hover flies (among many others).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spider_enoplognatha_ovata_0108106632.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">An Enoplognatha ovata spider, upside down<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/moth_0108106654.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">An unidentified moth, upside down<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hover_fly_0108106650.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Bats do it, but so it seems do hover flies. They sleep upside down<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And one more from last night&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fox_bold_vixen_cheeky_cub_3107106554.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Cheeky is upside down \ud83d\ude09 <\/span><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,991],"tags":[1128,642,1162,1132],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-insects-2","tag-fox","tag-hover-fly","tag-moth","tag-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}