{"id":19165,"date":"2026-08-11T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fin\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:35:05","slug":"fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/fin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A thin flat appendage that sticks out from the body of a cetacean and is used in stabilising, moving or guiding the animal through water (<em>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/em>). All cetaceans have pectoral fins (near the front of their body) and caudal fins or flukes (at their tail). Most species also have a dorsal fin on their back, but in some it is very small or nonexistent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fins_Credit_NOAA-Fisheries.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;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;\">Different fins of common dolphin \u00a9 NOAA Fisheries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thin flat appendage that sticks out from the body of a cetacean and is used in stabilising, moving or guiding the animal through water (Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica). All cetaceans have pectoral fins (near the front of their body) and caudal fins or flukes (at their tail). Most species also have a dorsal fin on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,273,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-da","category-f","category-glossary-da"],"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\/19165","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=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}