{"id":15487,"date":"2015-11-09T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2015-11-12T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:56:45","slug":"icebreakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15487","title":{"rendered":"Icebreakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kootenay Lake has three (semi?) aquatic mammals. By medium weight they are: the beaver (~ 23 kg), otter (~ 8 kg), and muskrat (~1.2 kg).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult enough to obtain decent pictures of any of the three, but obtaining shots of each interacting with ice is distinctly less likely. So, when I realized that with last week&#8217;s picture of a muskrat, I had an example of each, I felt that it was worth a posting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How each mammal interacts with ice probably depends upon its weight and ice thickness, but my sample of pictures is too small to allow anything but anecdotal comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest of our aquatic mammals, the beaver just plowed through the grease ice. (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12577\">Jan. 16, 2015<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15489\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/beaver150116as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This otter is dealing with much thicker ice, but keeps the dive hole open by stirring the water even while apparently napping. (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1343\">Dec. 27, 2013<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15490\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/otter131227cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weighing little more than a kilogram, this muskrat tried to break the freshly formed ice with its claw. Failing to do so, it then dived and swam underwater to the shore. (Nov. 4, 2015)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15488\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/muskrat151104as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kootenay Lake has three (semi?) aquatic mammals. By medium weight they are: the beaver (~ 23 kg), otter (~ 8 kg), and muskrat (~1.2 kg).\u00a0 It is difficult enough to obtain decent pictures of any of the three, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15487\">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-15487","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\/15487","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=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}