{"id":550,"date":"2025-07-04T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:02:44","slug":"meet-the-pink-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Pink Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pink elephant goes for an afternoon swim with its mother and herd, and despite its unique color, the herd passionately cares for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhxKHYufrYYp1rOCI0IsKp0MqeVHxQOCnMaEvkqhnr7xm7ZvrObLjaZcSMXbioQrmqnREb5p24SDLg291MAyVcX3CDHwfO1kDLWS3dxk_oWJDaay7Vws5wPoApetXZhyphenhyphenVzmeLkmv08IG0b_E75boW2hKKCfPGpwxjIbDyNMX83rSUURVvoUgKDtQcgWZ_8\/s1600\/Meet%20the%20Pink%20Elephant.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was late afternoon when we headed down to the river to see what we could find. Expecting to find regulars at the water\u2019s edge, cooling down from the day\u2019s heat, we were pleasantly surprised to find a rather unique little creature. A pink elephant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teenage Elephants Knock Baby over in the Road\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXhrA-L3wYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we delve into why this elephant calf has pink skin, let\u2019s talk about elephants and their skin. Elephants have very thick skin, which can be up to 2.5 centimeters thick in some areas. Their skin is also very tough and rough, which helps protect them from predators and the harsh African sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pink elephant goes for an afternoon swim with its mother and herd, and despite its unique color, the herd passionately cares for it. It was late afternoon when we &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}