{"id":3812,"date":"2012-08-13T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:45:29","slug":"stingray-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2012\/08\/13\/stingray-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Stingray Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3821\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stingray-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3821\" title=\"stingray-3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stingray-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit - http:\/\/www.absolutedivers.com\/stingray_city.htm<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t already heard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2012\/entertainment\/StingrayIsland.asp\">stingrays are coming to the Fair<\/a> this year! Although we will be blogging and taking pictures\/video of the new exhibit we thought it would be fun to give you some facts we&#8217;ve learned about stingrays in the past month or so.<br \/>\n<strong>Did you know:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stingrays don&#8217;t have bones; their bodies are supported by cartilage.<\/li>\n<li>They prey on clams, oysters, shrimp and crab.<\/li>\n<li>Stingrays can grow to be 6.5&#8242; tall and weigh as much as 790 pounds!<\/li>\n<li>When a pup (a baby stingray) is born it is almost fully developed; when it comes out of the mother&#8217;s womb it looks like a mini-adult stingray.<\/li>\n<li>Pups can feed themselves from birth.<\/li>\n<li>The average life span of a stingray is 15-25 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Ancient Greek dentists used the venom from the stingray&#8217;s spine as an anesthetic when they worked on their patients.<\/li>\n<li>There are more than 60 species of stingray in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Facts taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/fish\/stingray\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t already heard, stingrays are coming to the Fair this year! Although we will be blogging and taking pictures\/video of the new exhibit we thought it would be fun to give you some facts we&#8217;ve learned about stingrays in the past month or so. Did you know: Stingrays don&#8217;t have bones; their bodies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[72,806,1016,1081],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-funatthefair","tag-animals","tag-marine-life","tag-science","tag-stingrays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}