{"id":11765,"date":"2012-06-22T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2012-06-22T00:31:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T07:31:18","slug":"male-barnacles-have-the-largest-penis-proportional-to-their-body-size-in-the-animal-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/male-barnacles-have-the-largest-penis-proportional-to-their-body-size-in-the-animal-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Barnacles Have the Largest Penis Proportional to Their Body Size in the Animal Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/male-barnacle-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11766\" title=\"Barnacle Facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/male-barnacle-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/male-barnacle-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/male-barnacle-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Male barnacles have the largest penis proportional to its body size in the animal kingdom. It can reach up to 50 times the length of the barnacles&#8217; body. It reaches out of the shell and transfers its sperm to a female neighbor. After fertilization, the female barnacle broods its eggs until they hatch as a minute nauplius larva which swims until it transforms to another larval stage called a cypris that then settles head-down on a suitable surface.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"duck facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/there-is-a-type-of-duck-that-sometimes-lassos-its-potential-mates-with-its-penis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male barnacles have the largest penis proportional to its body size in the animal kingdom. It can reach up to 50 times the length of the barnacles&#8217; body. It reaches out of the shell and transfers its sperm to a female neighbor. After fertilization, the female barnacle broods its eggs until they hatch as a minute nauplius larva which swims [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2775,2776,2777],"class_list":["post-11765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-barnacle-facts","tag-largest-penis","tag-penis-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11767,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions\/11767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}