{"id":3714,"date":"2025-01-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:42:24","slug":"a-wild-cat-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/a-wild-cat-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Cat in Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Margay<em> (Leopardus wiedii),<\/em> a wild cat that lives in Central and South America, is a master of vocal disguises. The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Federal University of Amazonas have documented this species mimicking the calls of its prey, the pied tamarin (a squirrel-sized monkey).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31574 size-full\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/margay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/margay1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/margay1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/margay1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Margay are sneaky hunters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[247,343,104,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-3714","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-calls","11":"tag-camouflage","12":"tag-united-nations","13":"tag-wild-cats"},"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\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604928,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/604928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}