{"id":12577,"date":"2015-01-17T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2015-01-17T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:55:05","slug":"icebreaking-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12577","title":{"rendered":"Icebreaking beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have had insufficient\u00a0opportunities to watch beavers for I have not seen one play icebreaker before. The beaver left\u00a0its lodge in a bank and promptly encountered, what I think is called, grease ice. Grease ice is a later stage of freezing than frazil. The crystals have coagulated to form a soupy layer with a matt appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The beaver just ploughed through the thin layer of grease ice.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12580\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beaver150116as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It quickly acquired icy adornments.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12579\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beaver150116bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While travelling (to the right), the beaver stuck its head below the grease ice and the flexible layer smoothly deformed over its moving body as if it were a bedspread atop a crawling toddler.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12578\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beaver150116cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have had insufficient\u00a0opportunities to watch beavers for I have not seen one play icebreaker before. The beaver left\u00a0its lodge in a bank and promptly encountered, what I think is called, grease ice. Grease ice is a later stage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12577\">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":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","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=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12591,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}