{"id":166219,"date":"2023-06-22T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/do-fish-get-thirsty"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:23:24","slug":"do-fish-get-thirsty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/do-fish-get-thirsty","title":{"rendered":"Do fish get thirsty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-fish-get-thirsty2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How much water a fish consumes really depends on how much salt is in its surrounding habitat. While fish do drink some water \u2014 salty or fresh, depending on their surroundings \u2014 through their mouths, they mostly absorb it through their skin and gills via osmosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to think of a fish as sort of a leaky boat in the water,\u201d Tim Grabowski, a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii, told Live Science. \u201cYou constantly have a movement of either water or the salts that are in the water between the fish\u2019s body and the external environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much water a fish consumes really depends on how much salt is in its surrounding habitat. While fish do drink some water \u2014 salty or fresh, depending on their surroundings \u2014 through their mouths, they mostly absorb it through their skin and gills via osmosis. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to think of a fish as sort [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166219","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\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}