{"id":3869,"date":"2011-03-27T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2011-03-27T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:45:45","slug":"a-slough-of-starry-flounder-and-sticklebacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/27\/a-slough-of-starry-flounder-and-sticklebacks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slough of Starry Flounder and Sticklebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3870\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/beach-seine3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3870\" title=\"Beach Seine3\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/beach-seine3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/beach-seine3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/beach-seine3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What kind of fish can you net in Elkhorn Slough just down the road from MLML?\u00a0 After the Ichthyology class set our nets on a field trip, we pulled in all kinds of sandy bottom fishes, like this Starry Flounder.\u00a0 A flat shape and a mottled pattern are perfect adaptations for blending in to the sandy floor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3872\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/starry-flounder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3872\" title=\"Starry Flounder\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/starry-flounder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo. E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Three Spined Stickleback came from deeper in the channel of the slough.\u00a0 The males build nests out of vegetation and guard them once the females lay their eggs.\u00a0 Spiny defenses can come in handy when the next generation is at stake!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3871\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/stickleback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3871\" title=\"Stickleback\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/stickleback.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of fish can you net in Elkhorn Slough just down the road from MLML?\u00a0 After the Ichthyology class set our nets on a field trip, we pulled in all kinds of sandy bottom fishes, like this Starry Flounder.\u00a0 A flat shape and a mottled pattern are perfect adaptations for blending in to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fish"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}