{"id":47063,"date":"2016-04-20T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/47063\/whacky-wednesday-weird-and-wonderful-narwhal\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:01:45","slug":"whacky-wednesday-weird-and-wonderful-narwhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/04\/20\/whacky-wednesday-weird-and-wonderful-narwhal\/","title":{"rendered":"Whacky Wednesday: Weird and wonderful narwhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The narwhal is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/stories\/unicorn-of-the-sea-narwhal-facts\" target=\"_blank\">the unicorn of the sea<\/a>, a pale-coloured porpoise found in Arctic coastal waters and rivers. These legendary animals have two teeth. In males, the more prominent tooth grows into a sword like, spiral tusk up to 8.8 feet (2.7 meters) long. The ivory tusk tooth grows right through the narwhal&#8217;s upper lip. Scientists are not certain of the tusk&#8217;s purpose, but some believe it is prominent in mating rituals, perhaps used to impress females or to battle rival suitors. Females sometimes grow a small tusk of their own, but it does not become as prominent as the male&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Narwhals | World&amp;apos;s Weirdest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YO58kt-jETA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often dubbed the unicorns of the sea, narwhals are strange and beautiful creatures with long tusks protruding from their heads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":47064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[4212,4213,4214],"class_list":["post-47063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-narwhal","tag-narwhal-with-ivory-tusk","tag-unicorn-of-the-sea"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["narwhal","narwhal with ivory tusk","unicorn of the sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}