{"id":16356,"date":"2024-10-04T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/tail-fluke\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:50:26","slug":"tail-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/tail-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail fluke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Triangular ending of a whales\u2019 tail. Like the dorsal fin, flukes do not have bone or muscles. Unique to every whale, similar to fingerprints in humans. Tail flukes are often used for identifying individuals, especially for humpback whales, whose white pigmentation patterns really stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/tail-fluke_Credit-Rhys-Watkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">Identifying traits on a humpback whale tail \u00a9 Rhys Watkin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triangular ending of a whales\u2019 tail. Like the dorsal fin, flukes do not have bone or muscles. Unique to every whale, similar to fingerprints in humans. Tail flukes are often used for identifying individuals, especially for humpback whales, whose white pigmentation patterns really stand out. Identifying traits on a humpback whale tail \u00a9 Rhys Watkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,126,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-da","category-glossary-da","category-t"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}