{"id":35799,"date":"2022-05-02T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35799"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T23:49:41","slug":"word-of-the-day-787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/02\/word-of-the-day-787\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Amplexus<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Amplexus<\/b>\u00a0(Latin &#8220;embrace&#8221;) is a type of\u00a0<a title=\"Mating\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mating\">mating behavior<\/a>\u00a0exhibited by some\u00a0<a title=\"External fertilization\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/External_fertilization\">externally fertilizing<\/a>\u00a0species (chiefly\u00a0<a title=\"Amphibian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amphibian\">amphibians<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Horseshoe crabs\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horseshoe_crabs\">horseshoe crabs<\/a>) in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process, and at the same time or with some time delay, he\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Fertilize\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fertilize\">fertilizes<\/a>\u00a0the eggs, as they are released from the female&#8217;s body.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:02_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amplexus#cite_note-:02-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In amphibians, females may be grasped by the head, waist, or armpits, and the type of amplexus is characteristic of some taxonomic groups.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amplexus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2315689-male-toad-clings-to-female-for-5-months-waiting-for-chance-to-mate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Male toad clings to female for 5 months waiting for chance to mate<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Luke Taylor, <strong><em>NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (23 April 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A species of endangered toad endemic to Colombia\u2019s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains is clinging on for dear life. The tiny Santa Marta harlequin toad (<i>Atelopus laetissimu<\/i>s), which is just 4 centimetres long, can cling to the back of a female for five months without feeding until the pair are ready to mate.<\/p>\n<p>The grasping behaviour, which is known as \u201camplexus\u201d, is seen in many other animal species \u2013 but rarely continues for such a long period of time, says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.luisruedasolano.com\/\">Luis Alberto Rueda-Solano<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Magdalena, Colombia. In some cases, it can even prove fatal. But finding a female early in the breeding season and holding on for the long haul comes with big reproductive benefits, he adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the couple get to know each other really well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amplexus: Amplexus\u00a0(Latin &#8220;embrace&#8221;) is a type of\u00a0mating behavior\u00a0exhibited by some\u00a0externally fertilizing\u00a0species (chiefly\u00a0amphibians\u00a0and\u00a0horseshoe crabs) in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process, and at the same time or with some time delay, he\u00a0fertilizes\u00a0the eggs, as they are released from the female&#8217;s body.[1]\u00a0In \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/02\/word-of-the-day-787\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35800,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35799\/revisions\/35800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}