{"id":13523,"date":"2015-05-09T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2015-05-09T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:10:04","slug":"amplexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13523","title":{"rendered":"Amplexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A froggy would a-wooing go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amplexus (embrace) refers to the mating position of frogs and toads, in which the male clasps the female about the back with his front legs. Sperm and eggs are released together and fertilization occurs externally.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Western Toads were seen along the shore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13527\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westerntoad150508as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it became evident that they were mating: in the grass,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13524\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westerntoad150508ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>under water,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13525\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westerntoad150508cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and at the water&#8217;s edge.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13526\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/westerntoad150508bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A froggy would a-wooing go.\u00a0 Amplexus (embrace) refers to the mating position of frogs and toads, in which the male clasps the female about the back with his front legs. Sperm and eggs are released together and fertilization occurs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13523\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13542,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}