{"id":23547,"date":"2023-10-20T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2023-10-20T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:58:52","slug":"animals-disguised-as-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/plantae-and-fauna\/animals-disguised-as-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals disguised as plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Meet with Manuel Lara the <strong>Animals disguised as plants<\/strong>.<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stick and leaf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/the-lab\/insect-hotels\/\">insects<\/a><\/strong> (order <em>Phasmatodea<\/em>) exhibit extreme forms of masquerade <em>crypsis<\/em>, <strong>imitating various parts of plants<\/strong>, such as twigs, bark, and live or dead leaves, <strong>which enables<\/strong> <em>phasmatodeans<\/em> <strong>to deceive visually hunting predators. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These forms of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/history-and-culture\/why-must-cacti-be-your-first-plant\/\">plant<\/a> mimicry<\/strong> are <strong>brought to perfection through specialized behaviors<\/strong>, such as catalepsy (<strong>adaptive stillness<\/strong>) and <strong>imitation of a leaf swaying in the wind<\/strong> during daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet with Manuel Lara the Animals disguised as plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,70],"tags":[477,1140,1263,1262,1148,425,1265,1258,281,1260,1261,639,434,1264,1259],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-files","category-plantae-and-fauna","tag-flora-en","tag-biophilia","tag-branches","tag-camouflage","tag-ed-28-biophilic-architecture","tag-fauna-en","tag-imitation","tag-insects","tag-landuum-2","tag-leaf","tag-leaf-stick-insects","tag-magazine","tag-plants","tag-predators","tag-stick"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23592,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions\/23592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}