{"id":294,"date":"2005-03-09T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T01:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=294"},"modified":"2005-03-09T20:57:18","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T01:57:18","slug":"monotremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Monotremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter and I just got finished watching a Jeff Corwin Experience show about Tazmania. I love watching nature programs, and this one is no exception; Jeff Corwin is a lot of fun. <\/p>\n<p>Today, he was talking about Monotremes. For those of you in Rio Lindo, monotremes are unique in the natural world; they are mammals that lay eggs. Only two types of these creatures exist on earth, and they are the Duckbilled Platypus and the Spiny Echidna. In addition to laying eggs, they feed their young, lacking teats, by sweating milk on a certain patch of their skin. Yep, in all the world, there exists no other mammal who lays eggs. Wait, what? Oh, there&#8217;s a third?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAh, yes. Welcome the new member ofthe Monotreme family, the newest egglaying mammal:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dan_rather_nosepicker.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/archives\/dan_rather_nosepicker.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wonder if he&#8217;ll spend his retirement trying to sweat milk from the hairy spot on his chest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter and I just got finished watching a Jeff Corwin Experience show about Tazmania. I love watching nature programs, and this one is no exception; Jeff Corwin is a lot of fun. Today, he was talking about Monotremes. For those of you in Rio Lindo, monotremes are unique in the natural world; they are mammals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}