{"id":13126,"date":"2015-03-29T08:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T15:42:47","slug":"disparate-grazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13126","title":{"rendered":"Disparate grazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On adjacent\u00a0days I watched two rather\u00a0different mammals graze: marmot and elk. The two occupy different habitats and differ in weight by a factor of a hundred, but for each, grass is a staple of its diet.<\/p>\n<p>A Yellow-bellied Marmot eats\u00a0grass during the day along the edge of its home in a field of rocks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13128\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/marmot150327bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Elk eats grass during the evening in an open field.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13127\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elk150328bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each deserves a portrait set in its favoured habitat. First the marmot,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13130\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/marmot150327s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then the elk.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elk150328as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On adjacent\u00a0days I watched two rather\u00a0different mammals graze: marmot and elk. The two occupy different habitats and differ in weight by a factor of a hundred, but for each, grass is a staple of its diet. A Yellow-bellied Marmot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13126\">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-13126","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\/13126","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=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13137,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}