{"id":155270,"date":"2023-01-12T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/deadly-snakes-pictured-fleeing-flooded-dens-they-are-fantastic-swimmers"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:26:03","slug":"deadly-snakes-pictured-fleeing-flooded-dens-they-are-fantastic-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/deadly-snakes-pictured-fleeing-flooded-dens-they-are-fantastic-swimmers","title":{"rendered":"Deadly snakes pictured fleeing flooded dens: \u201cThey are fantastic swimmers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deadly-snakes-pictured-fleeing-flooded-dens-they-are-fantastic-swimmers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do snakes do when their burrows are inundated with flood water? The same thing as humans\u2014they move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/newsweek-com-california-flooding-deluge-snakes-rain-rattlesnakes-1772899\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"California Flooding Could Bring Deluge of Snakes\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Snakes in California<\/a> have been seen swimming through the state\u2019s flooded streets, but that\u2019s nothing compared to South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding of the Murray River in Australia has closed off roads, inundated homes and cut off communities across the country. It has also displaced local wildlife from their homes, resulting in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mouse-plague-australia-snakes-mating-food-1766790\" class=\"\">increase in snake encounters<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do snakes do when their burrows are inundated with flood water? The same thing as humans\u2014they move. Snakes in California have been seen swimming through the state\u2019s flooded streets, but that\u2019s nothing compared to South Australia. The flooding of the Murray River in Australia has closed off roads, inundated homes and cut off communities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}