{"id":1554,"date":"2025-07-29T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:19:51","slug":"elusive-noodlefish-from-uninhabited-island-found-as-a-pet-3500-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/elusive-noodlefish-from-uninhabited-island-found-as-a-pet-3500-miles-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive \u2018noodlefish\u2019 from uninhabited island found as a pet 3,500 miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tetepare, the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific, researchers caught a slender, unknown fish while surveying the Hokata River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-141707-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Elusive \u2018noodlefish\u2019 from uninhabited island found as a pet 3,500 miles away\" class=\"wp-image-1555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-141707-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-141707-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-141707-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-141707.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/281575193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Liebhaber<\/a><br><em>July 25, 2025 6:02 PM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article311439115.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tetepare, the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific, researchers caught a slender, unknown fish while surveying the Hokata River. By\u00a0Lauren LiebhaberJuly 25, 2025 6:02 PM Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wishfiji.sydney.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}