{"id":5276,"date":"2025-05-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:32:27","slug":"a-fish-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/a-fish-out-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Out of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Lungfish (<em>Protopterus annectens<\/em>) lives in flood plains, which can be tricky in drought season, as the water dries up most aquatic species would be in trouble. Luckily, this smart fish has developed a way to breathe even when it is out of the water by secreting a thin, slimy film that it covers itself in. This slime dries into a fragile cocoon that the fish can live in for over a year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5275 size-full\" title=\"african lung fish\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909.jpg\" alt=\"african lung fish\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Lung Fish doesn&#8217;t need to hold its breath <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[220,197,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-5276","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-africa","11":"tag-fish","12":"tag-underwater"},"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\/5276","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=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607136,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/607136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}