{"id":19222,"date":"2026-08-11T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/dorsal-fin\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:48:14","slug":"dorsal-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/dorsal-fin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorsal fin"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fin, made primarily from cartilage (like your ears) located on the back of marine mammals. The shape and size of the dorsal fin is useful for distinguishing similar species, and in some species, such as bottlenose dolphins, can even help us identify individuals!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Dorsal-fin_C-FU-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"center lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/717;width:444px;height:auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">Dorsal fin of a killer whale \u00a9 Fernando Ugarte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fin, made primarily from cartilage (like your ears) located on the back of marine mammals. The shape and size of the dorsal fin is useful for distinguishing similar species, and in some species, such as bottlenose dolphins, can even help us identify individuals! Dorsal fin of a killer whale \u00a9 Fernando Ugarte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,240,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-da","category-d","category-glossary-da"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"naima","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/author\/naima\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}