{"id":104658,"date":"2017-11-12T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/hottentot-teal-anas-hottentota-pair-copulating-at-marievale-nature-reserve-gauteng-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:35:00","slug":"hottentot-teal-anas-hottentota-pair-copulating-at-marievale-nature-reserve-gauteng-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/hottentot-teal-anas-hottentota-pair-copulating-at-marievale-nature-reserve-gauteng-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottentot Teal, Anas hottentota, pair copulating at Marievale Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hottentot Teal, Anas hottentota, pair copulating at Marievale Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gauteng South Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/764\/31885085973_57a9a7dfe5.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Image by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93242958@N00\/31885085973\">Derek Keats<\/a><\/i><br \/>\nThe female was resting on the bank, when the male appeared. She left the bank and swam towards the male, who was bobbing his head up and down. He swam beside her, and she stopped, and he mounted by climbing on behind. He grabbed the feathers at the back of her head, and at one point she was entirely submerged. After probably 20 seconds, it was done, and he swam away, and she followed him behind a patch of reeds.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis <em>Gauteng South Africa<\/em> image was automatically curated and published with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot<\/a> plugin &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to learn more about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot for WordPress<\/a> &#8211; a massive time and money saver.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\">Visit the MyPE YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hottentot Teal, Anas hottentota, pair copulating at Marievale Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa Image by Derek Keats The female was resting on the bank, when the male appeared. She left the bank and swam towards the male, who was bobbing his head up and down. He swam beside her, and she stopped, and he mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9014],"tags":[5586,428,14390,28167,14388,14391,9176,4995,14979,5387,3576,14389],"class_list":{"0":"post-104658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-images","7":"tag-gauteng","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-anas","10":"tag-copulating","11":"tag-hottentot","12":"tag-hottentota","13":"tag-marievale","14":"tag-nature","15":"tag-pair","16":"tag-reserve","17":"tag-south","18":"tag-teal","19":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}