{"id":43970,"date":"2016-02-14T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=43970"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:02:50","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-romantic-is-the-animal-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-how-romantic-is-the-animal-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Romantic is the Animal Kingdom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Happy Elephant | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/the-happy-elephant?source=blog_uk_160214\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Happy-Elephant-620.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Elephant | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So romantic. Welcome to the Valentine\u2019s Day edition of Uncommon Knowledge\u2014a place where we can talk about all the romantic things animals do for each other. For one, sea otters hold hands when they sleep. They do this mostly so they don\u2019t drift away from their pals while they snooze on their backs in the water, but the result is true intimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Another romantic gesture? Penguins will propose to new mates with a pebble. Many penguins assemble their nests out of pebbles, so really, it\u2019s a way of offering their beloved a promise to build a home with them. Maybe we can follow suit and start replacing engagement rings with a nice adjustable rate mortgage?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brolga | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brolga\" target=\"_blank\">Brolgas cranes<\/a>, like most cranes, are monogamous and will mate with the same partner every year, typically at the same nesting spot. However, the brolgas know a thing or two about keeping the romance alive\u2014no matter how many years they\u2019ve been together, the brolgas will still court their mate with an intricate mating dance. Ooh la la!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s do some rapid-fire romance: Ready for a puppy fact? Male puppies will intentionally let female puppies win when they play-fight so they can get to know them better. Like seahorses? They\u2019re monogamous and will hold each other\u2019s tails when traveling.<\/p>\n<p>Ain\u2019t love grand?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Happy Elephant | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/the-happy-elephant?source=blog_uk_160214\" target=\"_blank\">The Happy Elephant<\/a> |\u00a0$68.00 &#8211; 150.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Valentine\u2019s Day edition of Uncommon Knowledge, where we can talk about all the romantic things animals do for each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":43987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1042,813,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44231,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970\/revisions\/44231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}