{"id":5245,"date":"2026-11-07T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5245"},"modified":"2026-11-07T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:07:14","slug":"crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5245","title":{"rendered":"Crocodiles basking at the Arba Minch crocodile farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?resize=2048%2C971&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dozens of crocodiles lying on a concrete enclosure floor around a shaded pool\" class=\"wp-image-5244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?resize=250%2C119&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?resize=700%2C332&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?resize=768%2C364&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?resize=1536%2C728&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Dozens of crocodiles bask on the concrete floor of an enclosure at the Arba Minch crocodile farm in Ethiopia. The poster shared it in September 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dozens of crocodiles bask on the concrete floor of an enclosure at the Arba Minch crocodile farm in Ethiopia. The poster shared it in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EliasGebre\/status\/1309451742061314048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elias G (@EliasGebre) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of crocodiles bask on the concrete floor of an enclosure at the Arba Minch crocodile farm in Ethiopia. The poster shared it in September 2020. Dozens of crocodiles bask on the concrete floor of an enclosure at the Arba Minch crocodile farm in Ethiopia. The poster shared it in September 2020. Photo: Elias G\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[2756,1116,108,2111,2602],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life","tag-arba-minch","tag-crocodiles","tag-ethiopia","tag-reptiles","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/crocodiles-basking-at-the-arba-minch-crocodile-farm.jpg?fit=2048%2C971&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}