{"id":5462,"date":"2011-01-28T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:56:05","slug":"gecko-disguises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/gecko-disguises\/","title":{"rendered":"Gecko Disguises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Statonic leaf-tailed gecko (<em>Uroplatus phantasticus)<\/em>; well we\u2019d introduce you if we could find him! This reptile is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3714\">master of disguise<\/a>; they stay hidden even as they roam the rainforests of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=2976\">Madagascar<\/a> looking for tasty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5349\">insects<\/a> to eat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5463\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5463  \" title=\"Uroplatus Phantasticus Leaf Tailed Gecko\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/uroplatus_phantasticus_leaf_tailed_gecko_flickr_gripso_banana_prune.jpg\" alt=\"leaf gecko Madagascar \" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/uroplatus_phantasticus_leaf_tailed_gecko_flickr_gripso_banana_prune.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/uroplatus_phantasticus_leaf_tailed_gecko_flickr_gripso_banana_prune-475x420.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/uroplatus_phantasticus_leaf_tailed_gecko_flickr_gripso_banana_prune-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">leaf tailed gecko. Flickr Credit: gripso_banana_prune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This reptile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1267\">blends in<\/a> by looking like a dried up leaf, if that wasn\u2019t sneaky enough the leaf-tailed gecko can also flatten its body against the ground. If a determined<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=2209\"> predator<\/a> is still able to snag this gecko they can always voluntarily shed their tail to escape.<\/p>\n<h4>If you were an animal how would you stay hidden from predators in the wild?<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/1055106\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/1055106<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4752\" style=\"border: 0px solid;\" title=\"ER-LOGO-FROG\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ER-LOGO-FROG-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"77\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\">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=\"..\/?cat=3\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help us try and track down the leaf-tailed gecko <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/uroplatus_phantasticus_leaf_tailed_gecko_flickr_gripso_banana_prune-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"leaf gecko Madagascar\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[343,71,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-5462","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-camouflage","11":"tag-madagascar","12":"tag-reptile"},"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\/5462","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=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}