{"id":604019,"date":"2025-05-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/?p=604019"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:32:56","slug":"a-fish-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/a-fish-out-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Out of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"604020\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_lung_fish-e1744738045909-1-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Lung Fish doesn&#8217;t need to hold its breath <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136598,"featured_media":604020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-604019","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"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604019","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\/136598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604021,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604019\/revisions\/604021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}