{"id":216449,"date":"2026-04-02T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:41:08","slug":"refuge-provides-update-on-wildlife-sanibel-captiva-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216449\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge provides update on wildlife &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Florida raccoons are specially adapted to live in a mangrove ecosystem? According to the J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel, they are excellent climbers and swimmers and make use of the mangroves\u2019 dense root systems as their hunting grounds and a protective shelter. To learn more about the Florida raccoon, check out the Field Guide Friday on the \u201cDing\u201d Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge\u2019s (DDWS) Instagram or Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>To reach REFUGE\/DDWS, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2026\/04\/refuge-provides-update-on-wildlife-7\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that Florida raccoons are specially adapted to live in a mangrove ecosystem? According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-216449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}