{"id":4541,"date":"2012-09-14T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2012-09-14T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:06:18","slug":"if-it-looks-like-a-stingray-but-moves-like-a-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2012\/09\/14\/if-it-looks-like-a-stingray-but-moves-like-a-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"If it looks like a stingray but moves like a crab&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2012\/entertainment\/StingrayIsland.asp\">Stingray Island<\/a> is loaded with creatures of the sea&#8211;stingrays (of course), eels, a lion fish, sharks and the Horseshoe Crab.<br \/>\nThis little guy&#8211;well, he&#8217;s not so little&#8211;looks like his neighbor stingrays but he&#8217;s actually a crab!<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4544\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stingraycrab1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4544\" title=\"stingraycrab1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stingraycrab1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Is it a stingray or a crab? \" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it a stingray or a crab?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAt first glance he appears to be a member of the sand ray family but if you lift him onto his back you&#8217;ll see that he&#8217;s actually a crab! Horseshoe Crabs can be identified by their hard, disc-shaped shells and their large eyes. When you flip him over, you can see that although his shell resembles a stingray, his underside says otherwise.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stingraycrab2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4543\" title=\"stingraycrab2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/stingraycrab2-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>They have five pairs of legs they use for walking, swimming and feeding. You can see him crawling along the bottom of the stingray pool, searching for food!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stingray Island is loaded with creatures of the sea&#8211;stingrays (of course), eels, a lion fish, sharks and the Horseshoe Crab. This little guy&#8211;well, he&#8217;s not so little&#8211;looks like his neighbor stingrays but he&#8217;s actually a crab! At first glance he appears to be a member of the sand ray family but if you lift him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,14],"tags":[323,457,526,806,1080,1081],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-shows","category-animals","category-attractions","category-education","category-funatthefair","tag-education","tag-fun","tag-horseshoe-crab","tag-marine-life","tag-stingray-island","tag-stingrays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","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=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}