{"id":1815,"date":"2010-09-14T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:18","slug":"komodo-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/komodo-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Komodo dragons can run up to 18 kilometres in short bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Komodo dragons are the world&#8217;s largest lizard,\u00a0reaching 165 kg and over three meters in length. At that size you may not think of the Komodo dragon as fast but they can certainly pick up the pace, speed that helps them take down large prey\u00a0like water buffalos and deer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11091 aligncenter\" title=\"komodo dragon\" alt=\"komodo dragon\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/komodo_dragon.jpeg\" width=\"290\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/komodo_dragon.jpeg 483w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/komodo_dragon-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/komodo_dragon-280x420.jpeg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"..\/..\/games\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"..\/..\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komodo dragons may not look fast, but it can run faster than most humans during short bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[212,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-1815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-fastest","11":"tag-komodo-dragon"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}