{"id":661,"date":"2014-03-13T02:11:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T06:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:05:58","slug":"giant-gourami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/03\/13\/giant-gourami\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Gourami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The giant gourami is a rather large freshwater fish from Malaysia.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_660\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giant-Gourami.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giant-Gourami.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a giant gourami.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giant-Gourami.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giant-Gourami-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant gourami  (<em>Osphronemus goramy<\/em>) living in the Toronto Zoo.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>A giant gourami like is like other smaller gouramis that people keep as pets in their home aquariums, just quite a bit larger. Like any other gourami it can, and in fact must, breath air using its labyrinth organ in its gills.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a> has these fish in the Malayan Woods and the Indomalaya exhibits.<br \/>\nThe giant gourami can grow over 70cm long, yet some people keep it as a pet even though it requires a huge aquarium (over 200 gallons).<\/p>\n<p>Further Readings:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontozoo.com\/ExploretheZoo\/AnimalDetails.asp?pg=614\" title=\"Jumbo gourami\" target=\"_blank\">Jumbo gourami<\/a> on the Toronto Zoo website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant gourami is a rather large freshwater fish from Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,20,14,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}