{"id":146,"date":"2013-01-14T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=146"},"modified":"2013-01-15T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:28:06","slug":"basilisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Basilisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_147\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=147#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"size-large wp-image-147\" alt=\"Basilisk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jesus-christ-lizard-1024x950.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jesus-christ-lizard-1024x950.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jesus-christ-lizard-300x278.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jesus-christ-lizard.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A basilisk poses on a stump near Tortuguero.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every time a guide has pointed out one of these reptiles, it has been described as a &#8220;Jesus Christ Lizard&#8221; for its ability to run on the surface of water using only its hind legs. I just learned from my new reference book on amphibians and reptiles in Costa Rica, however, that there is actually more than one basilisk species capable of &#8220;bipedal locomotion across water.&#8221; The particular species in this photo,\u00a0<em>Basiliscus vittatus<\/em>, while it can run on water, tends to be more terrestrial, and is commonly spied near the ground and further away from water than\u00a0other basilisk types that frequent trees.<\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a guide has pointed out one of these reptiles, it has been described as a &#8220;Jesus Christ Lizard&#8221; for its ability to run on the surface of water using only its hind legs. I just learned from my new reference book on amphibians and reptiles in Costa Rica, however, that there is actually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,13,20,9,14],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basilisks","tag-brown","tag-reptiles","tag-tortuguero","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}