{"id":4355,"date":"2018-11-10T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:55:46","slug":"have-you-ever-seen-a-frogfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/have-you-ever-seen-a-frogfish.html","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever seen a Frogfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what our dive instructor Michi found during today\u2019s afternoon dive: a giant frogfish.<\/p>\n<p>Frogfishes are any member of the anglerfish family Antennariidae, of the order Lophiiformes and are some of the more unusual fish you\u2019ll see in the Maldives: they don\u2019t usually move a lot, preferring to lie in wait for their prey to approach. When they do move, they rarely swim; instead they seem to \u2018clamber\u2019 along the sea bottom using their fins which looks like they\u2019re walking!<\/p>\n<p>Many species can change colour over time and are well camouflaged which helps them to lure prey as well as to avoid being seen by predators.<\/p>\n<p>We were all so excited to see the pictures because we love frogfish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what our dive instructor Michi found during today\u2019s afternoon dive: a giant frogfish. Frogfishes are any member of the anglerfish family Antennariidae, of the order Lophiiformes and are some of the more unusual fish you\u2019ll see in the Maldives: they don\u2019t usually move a lot, preferring to lie in wait for their prey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milaidhoo.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}