{"id":39,"date":"2010-02-03T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:49:22","slug":"antpitta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/antpitta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird that barks instead of sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and <strong>barks like a dog<\/strong>. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn&#8217;t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are <strong>dogs that do not bark<\/strong>! The basenji, a smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it get excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antpitta.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/files\/2010\/02\/antpitta.jpg\" alt=\"antpitta\" width=\"100\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>The Antpitta avis canis Ridgely &#8211; named after its discoverer Robert S Ridgley.<br \/>\nPhoto: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansp.org\/\">Academy of Natural Sciences<\/a>. Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antpitta.com\/\">antpitta.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basenji\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-428 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/files\/2010\/02\/basenji.jpg\" alt=\"basenji\" width=\"311\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/files\/2010\/02\/basenji.jpg 311w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/files\/2010\/02\/basenji-195x200.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>Basenji &#8211; Avuvi voiceless dog<br \/>\nMore info at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basenji\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-antpitta","tag-basenji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}