{"id":1668,"date":"2014-12-19T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2014-12-19T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:30:21","slug":"african-dwarf-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/12\/19\/african-dwarf-crocodile\/","title":{"rendered":"African Dwarf Crocodile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African dwarf crocodile is the smallest species of crocodile.<!--more--> It does not mean that the dwarf crocodile is particularly small, it is just smaller than the other crocodiles, between 1.5 and 2 meters long.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1666\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/African-Dwarf-Crocodile.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1666\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/African-Dwarf-Crocodile.jpg\" alt=\"African dwarf crocodile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1666\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/African-Dwarf-Crocodile.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/African-Dwarf-Crocodile-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African dwarf crocodile (<em>Osteolaemus tetraspis<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>African dwarf crocodiles, just like other crocodilians, are predators. Because of their smaller size they are also preyed upon by other predators. Humans also hunt dwarf crocodiles for bush meat. African dwarf crocodiles are also vulnerable to habitat destruction, but because of their large range they aren&#8217;t particularly threatened at this time.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dwarf_crocodile\" title=\"Dwarf crocodile\" target=\"_blank\">Dwarf crocodile<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontozoo.com\/ExploretheZoo\/AnimalDetails.asp?pg=598\" title=\"West African dwarf crocodile\" target=\"_blank\">West African dwarf crocodile<\/a> on the Toronto Zoo website.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African dwarf crocodile is the smallest species of crocodile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,61,72,48,50,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}