{"id":166,"date":"2012-06-26T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T17:02:35","slug":"eat-or-be-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Eat or Be Eaten &#8211; Lizardfish Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic: Animal Behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The world underwater is a competitive place. Little fish get eaten by bigger fish, which then get eaten by bigger fish (or whales, or dolphins, or sea lions, or, in too many cases, humans). It is a veritable food chain down there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These Lizardfish are voracious predators. They just lay in wait for some unsuspecting little fish to bumble by, and then, WHAM!, they grab them, and with a few quick gulps, the little fish is a goner. A lucky photographer will see the snatch, and maybe get a shot of the snack before it is swallowed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonaire Sand Diver with Blue Chromis in its Maw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awoosh.com\/gallery\/albums\/Bonaire2006\/aad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonaire Sand Diver with Blue Chromis in its Maw<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Indonesian Lizardfish with a Toby.  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.awoosh.com\/gallery\/albums\/Indonesia-Muck-2011\/acw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indonesian Lizardfish with a Toby.  You can almost hear the little fish screaming noooooooo&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic: Animal Behaviour. The world underwater is a competitive place. Little fish get eaten by bigger fish, which then get eaten by bigger fish (or whales, or dolphins, or sea lions, or, in too many cases, humans). It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}