{"id":278,"date":"2009-10-01T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/10\/01\/kind_of_blue_angus\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:25:57","slug":"kind_of_blue_angus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/10\/01\/kind_of_blue_angus\/","title":{"rendered":"kind of blue: Angus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Angus. He is a blue-tongued skink, and you can see why. There are lots of different <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skink\">types of skinks<\/a>; the blue-tongue is native to Australia. His tongue is blue as a defense mechanism; not to many animals are that brightly colored, and the ones who are are often venomous (think: poison dart frogs). But Angus is not venomous, so it&#8217;s a bluff.&nbsp; I like Angus, in spite of his kind of ornery personality. He reminds me a bit of Eeyore, from the&nbsp; Winnie-the-Pooh stories.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/IMG_0848-1689.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/IMG_0848-thumb-512x377-1689.jpg\" alt=\"October 1 2009\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"377\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>I&#8217;m bummed that this shot isn&#8217;t more in focus, but it&#8217;s hard to know when a lizard is going to stick its tongue out and I&#8217;m not about to reach in there and pull it out; he may not be venomous, but he&#8217;s still got teeth!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Angus. He is a blue-tongued skink, and you can see why. There are lots of different types of skinks; the blue-tongue is native to Australia. His tongue is blue as a defense mechanism; not to many animals are that brightly colored, and the ones who are are often venomous (think: poison dart frogs). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2009\/10\/01\/kind_of_blue_angus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">kind of blue: Angus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}