{"id":1267,"date":"2022-02-23T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:33:32","slug":"the-octopus-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/the-octopus-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Octopus Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if you could have super spy powers, like the ability to wear sneaky disguises that would fool all your friends.\u00a0That is exactly what the Indonesian Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) does. This mysterious animal impersonates things like flatfish and sea snakes to trick predators into thinking it\u2019s a toxic sea creature and not a yummy octopus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_589863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589863\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-589863\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ocean_mimic_octopus-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-589863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimic octopus. Flickr, Credit: divemecressi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>What superpower would you use to trick predators?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This octopus impersonates things that look toxic to trick predators and avoid being eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[343,92,108,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-1267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"tag-camouflage","11":"tag-ocean","12":"tag-octopus","13":"tag-predator"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589866,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/589866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}