{"id":11841,"date":"2014-10-13T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2014-10-13T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T01:31:00","slug":"bighorn-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"Bighorn portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are no Bighorn Sheep on mountain slopes on the sides of Kootenay Lake. The forest is just too dense. However, there are many herds of them within a hundred kilometres of the shoreline. This is the first of what will probably be three postings about our local Bighorn Sheep. It is merely a group of portraits to set the stage for subsequent postings.<\/p>\n<p>The first distinction to be made among\u00a0Bighorn Sheep is between\u00a0rams (males) and ewes (females). The ram with large curled horns is on the left and the ewe with shorter horns is on the right.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11847\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bighorn141012ks.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A profile of\u00a0rams\u00a0shows a horn curving strongly around the face.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11848\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bighorn141012js.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While a profile of ewes shows a much shorter horn.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11849\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bighorn141012is.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of rams holds court.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11851\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bighorn141012bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one stares into the camera.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11850\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bighorn141012hs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are no Bighorn Sheep on mountain slopes on the sides of Kootenay Lake. The forest is just too dense. However, there are many herds of them within a hundred kilometres of the shoreline. This is the first of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}