{"id":26473,"date":"2019-05-10T05:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26473"},"modified":"2019-05-10T05:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:24:51","slug":"toad-amplexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26473","title":{"rendered":"Toad amplexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May is amplexus time for the western toad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The male toad (the smaller of the two) climbs on the female&#8217;s back and grabs her under the armpits. This stimulates her to release eggs, which he then fertilizes.<\/p>\n<p>A male western toad grasps the female during amplexus. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26475\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/westerntoad190509as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another couple is accompanied by strings of eggs in the water. Soon there will be tadpoles.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26474\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/westerntoad190509bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; May is amplexus time for the western toad.\u00a0 The male toad (the smaller of the two) climbs on the female&#8217;s back and grabs her under the armpits. This stimulates her to release eggs, which he then fertilizes. A male &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26473\">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-26473","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\/26473","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=26473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26481,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions\/26481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}