{"id":6042,"date":"2011-02-25T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T18:12:24","slug":"pink-oily-hippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/pink-oily-hippo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Oily Hippo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/omg-facts\/run-its-a-hippo\/\">hippopotamus<\/a> protects its skin by secreting a pink oily substance, yuck! This slimy mess keeps the hippos\u2019 skin from drying out and protects them from the affects of the sun.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5994\" title=\"hippopotamus_kenya_\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land.jpg\" alt=\"hippopotamus kenya grassland\" width=\"627\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land.jpg 895w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-640x420.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/311532\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/311532<\/a><\/p>\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><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how this animal protects its skin <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/hippopotamus_kenya_land-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"hippopotamus kenya grassland \"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[204,81,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-6042","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-hippopotamus","11":"tag-protection","12":"tag-sun"},"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\/6042","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=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}