{"id":2785,"date":"2026-05-13T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:39:17","slug":"big-eyes-little-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/big-eyes-little-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Eyes Little Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/chironius\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"656\">whipsnake<\/a> (Chironius sp.) we saw in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/peru\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"210\">Peru<\/a> is basically a long life support system for eyes. It&#8217;s likely less cute to the many lizards and frogs in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chironius-sp_8148-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tiny whipsnake (Chironius sp.) we saw in Peru is basically a long life support system for eyes. It&#8217;s likely less cute to the many lizards and frogs in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[656,141,135],"tags":[210,308,673,762],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chironius","category-colubridae","category-snakes","tag-peru","tag-baby","tag-eyes","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}