{"id":27946,"date":"2018-02-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=27946"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:28:10","slug":"touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elephants are very tactile creatures.<\/p>\n

They use their trunks as multipurpose tools to assist them in, among other things: drinking, feeding, fighting, playing, caressing, smelling, admonishing, caring, exploring, and… just saying “hi”.<\/p>\n

Okavango Delta, Botswana.<\/p>\n

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Elephants are very tactile creatures. They use their trunks as multipurpose tools to assist them in, among other things: drinking, feeding, fighting, playing, caressing, smelling, admonishing, caring, exploring, and… just saying “hi”. Okavango Delta, Botswana.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":2192623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Botswana-JU-Wshop-2011-05-267.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2353,907,2414,2382],"class_list":["post-27946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-dana-allen","tag-elephant","tag-elephants","tag-okavango-delta-botswana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}