{"id":3568,"date":"2022-03-16T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2022-03-16T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:04:31","slug":"a-dangerous-platypus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/a-dangerous-platypus\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a platypus so dangerous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The platypus is a very interesting animal. It has a beak that looks like it belongs to a duck, which it uses to dig up invertebrates from lake beds. It is also one of only mammals to lay eggs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11865\" title=\"swimming_platypus\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_platypus.jpg\" alt=\"swimming platypus\" width=\"576\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_platypus.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_platypus-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just because they are a little peculiar doesn&#8217;t mean you should let your guard down. They are more dangerous then you think! The male platypus has a spur on its hind foot that contains venom lethal enough to kill a dog! This makes them one of the few venomous mammals on the planet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why you should be careful around this funny looking animal? It is more dangerous than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[131,413,222,104,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-3568","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-mammal","11":"tag-pictures","12":"tag-platypus","13":"tag-united-nations","14":"tag-venom"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590340,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/590340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}