{"id":31163,"date":"2016-10-18T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/thousands-of-scrotum-frogs-mysteriously-dying"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:29","slug":"thousands-of-scrotum-frogs-mysteriously-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/thousands-of-scrotum-frogs-mysteriously-dying","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of \u2018scrotum frogs\u2019 mysteriously dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thousands-of-scrotum-frogs-mysteriously-dying.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no biologist, but from what I understand frogs are kind of like the canary in the coal mine: They breath with their skin, thus environmental disasters will effect them first. So very, very not good.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Peruvian authorities want to know why more than 10,000 endangered frogs living near Lake Titicaca have suddenly died.<\/p>\n<p>The Titicaca Water Frog is considered a \u201ccritically endangered\u201d species, according to conservation groups. The giant amphibians, which can weigh more than two pounds, have excessive skin folds that have earned the species a rather wrinkly nickname: scrotum frog.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/18\/americas\/peru-giant-frog-deaths\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/18\/americas\/peru-giant-frog-deaths\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m no biologist, but from what I understand frogs are kind of like the canary in the coal mine: They breath with their skin, thus environmental disasters will effect them first. So very, very not good. Peruvian authorities want to know why more than 10,000 endangered frogs living near Lake Titicaca have suddenly died. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65967,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions\/65967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}