{"id":6900,"date":"2012-07-27T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:49","slug":"weedy-sea-dragon-gives-birth-at-seaworld-orlando-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/07\/27\/weedy-sea-dragon-gives-birth-at-seaworld-orlando-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Weedy Sea Dragon Gives Birth at SeaWorld Orlando [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/07\/27\/weedy-sea-dragon-gives-birth-at-seaworld-orlando-video\/weedy-sea-dragon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,331\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Weedy Sea Dragon\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Weedy Sea Dragon&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon-300x198.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6901\" title=\"Weedy Sea Dragon\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg\" alt=\"Weedy Sea Dragon\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A male weedy sea dragon has given birth at SeaWorld Orlando.\u00a0 This is the first weedy sea dragon birth at SeaWorld Orlando and only three other aquariums in the United States have successfully hatched weedy sea dragons.<\/p>\n<p>Weedy sea dragons (<em>Phyllopteryx taeniolatus<\/em>) are related the more familiar seahorses.\u00a0 Like seahorses, the males carry the eggs until they are ready to hatch.\u00a0 The babies are independent at birth.<\/p>\n<p>The weedy sea dragon is classified as Near Threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\u00a0 They&#8217;re native to coastal regions around southeastern Australia and Tasmania.\u00a0 Their habitat is at risk from development and pollution and their population could indicate the health of the ecosystems they live in.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rtLY3MPJkbo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Weedy Sea Dragon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=weedy+sea+dragon&amp;search_group=#id=84325249&amp;src=1dfaafef78f0bda055ee88a1859e3877-1-5\" target=\"_blank\">Weedy sea dragon<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male weedy sea dragon has given birth at SeaWorld Orlando.  Only three other aquariums in the United States have successfully hatched weedy sea dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[2854,1953,2493],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Weedy-Sea-Dragon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}