{"id":381,"date":"2013-02-12T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=381"},"modified":"2013-02-13T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:53:00","slug":"parrot-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Parrot Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=384#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-384\" alt=\"Parrot Snake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-2-1024x985.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-2-1024x985.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-2-300x288.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Parrot Snake <em>(Leptophis ahaetulla)<\/em>\u00a0in the above photo is furious because it just lost an epic battle with its lunch. Wrestling in the mud of the rainforest floor near Serena, the unidentified frog (possibly a member of the genus <em>Phrynohyas<\/em>) kept scrambling, and the writhing reptile just couldn&#8217;t get a solid grip. After several minutes, the amphibian finally slipped free and made a break for it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_393\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=393#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"size-large wp-image-393 \" alt=\"A Parrot Snake winds and twists in its attempt to grab ahold of a slippery frog.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-1024x703.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-1024x703.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Parrot Snake winds and twists in its attempt to grab ahold of a slippery frog.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_395\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=395#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"size-large wp-image-395 \" title=\"Parrot Snake and Frog\" alt=\"Parrot Snake and Frog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-2-1024x771.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-2-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-2-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/parrot-snake-and-toad-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The frog&#8217;s body appears to swell and secrete a mucus that aids in its escape.<\/p><\/div>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parrot Snake (Leptophis ahaetulla)\u00a0in the above photo is furious because it just lost an epic battle with its lunch. Wrestling in the mud of the rainforest floor near Serena, the unidentified frog (possibly a member of the genus Phrynohyas) kept scrambling, and the writhing reptile just couldn&#8217;t get a solid grip. After several minutes, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=381\" 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":[23,24,30,22,5,20,19],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amphibians","tag-frogs","tag-gray","tag-green","tag-osa-peninsula","tag-reptiles","tag-snakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}