{"id":3228,"date":"2025-02-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:31:13","slug":"an-aardvarks-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/an-aardvarks-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aardvark\u2019s Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how an aardvark can eat termites without eating the dirt they are standing in? The aardvark&#8217;s tongue can be up to <strong>30.5 centimetres<\/strong> long and is sticky to help extract termites while leaving the dirt behind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31448\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aardvark_tongue2.jpg\" alt=\"Aardvark_tongue2\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aardvark_tongue2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aardvark_tongue2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aardvark_tongue2-280x420.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the termite extractor! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[130,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-3228","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-eating","11":"tag-united-nations"},"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\/3228","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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604963,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/604963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}