{"id":33441,"date":"2024-06-21T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33441"},"modified":"2024-06-24T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T03:22:01","slug":"tadpoles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33441","title":{"rendered":"Tadpoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tadpoles have been seen for a week in Kokanee Creek Park. These tadpoles are the larvae of the Western Toad.<\/p>\n<p>First, the stage is set by going back about 5 weeks to the time of amplexus. (Actually it is an older picture from a previous year.) Amplexus is the toad&#8217;s external mating behaviour in which a male grasps a female with his front legs. She releases her eggs which he fertilizes.<\/p>\n<p>Western toads practice amplexus about 5 weeks earlier. The string of eggs is visible on the right side of the picture<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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>The fertilized eggs produce tadpoles. The is one view out of a few thousand tadpoles in Kokanee Creek Park this morning. They will develop into toadlets in another 4\u201312 weeks, depending upon the water temperature.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33442\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tadpole240621s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tadpoles have been seen for a week in Kokanee Creek Park. These tadpoles are the larvae of the Western Toad. First, the stage is set by going back about 5 weeks to the time of amplexus. (Actually it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33441\">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-33441","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\/33441","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=33441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33449,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions\/33449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}