{"id":1135,"date":"2012-11-06T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2012-11-06T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:12:15","slug":"welcoming-slither-the-legless-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/welcoming-slither-the-legless-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Slither the legless lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1136\" title=\"slither-legless-name-vote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slither-legless-name-vote-e1352182245595.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The legless lizard, our newly joined animal ambassador, just made her debut and got her name &#8211; SLITHER! It was nominated and voted by all guests of Animal Encounter at JG Club last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was closed. SQ(u)EEKY lost by only 1 vote. We might use this name for another of our animal star.<\/p>\n<p>Slither is a female European legless lizard, aka Sheltopusik (means yellow belly in Russian).<\/p>\n<p>This is a true freak, seems to be developed with full of contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>Being a lizard and it chose to lose its limbs and reduce its mobility. It prefers dry habitats but would often have to go to wet habitats to find its favorite food &#8211; earthworms, snails and slugs. It is the largest species of all legless lizards, reaching over 4 feet and being the king of its own clan, but it would drop off its own tail when threatened like a tiny gecko.<\/p>\n<p>You might think that a lizard with no legs is like a snake. But when you look closely you will find her very different from a snake in many ways. The eyes, the ears, the tail, the scales, the tongue, the behaviors, nothing alike.<\/p>\n<p>If snakes derived from lizards, then the legless lizards must have been like an\u00a0abandoned experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Slither has started her ambassadorship. Check her out at our events and experience the extreme side of nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legless lizard, our newly joined animal ambassador, just made her debut and got her name &#8211; SLITHER! It was nominated and voted by all guests of Animal Encounter at JG Club last weekend. It was closed. SQ(u)EEKY lost by only 1 vote. We might use this name for another of our animal star. Slither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-ambassador-team","category-lizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}