{"id":17939,"date":"2016-07-19T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:27:16","slug":"huffing-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17939","title":{"rendered":"Huffing bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Black Bear in a tree huffed at me.<\/p>\n<p>The bear was about three metres above the ground feasting on\u00a0bitter\u00a0cherries when it decided that I had wandered\u00a0too close. It let me know its feelings. While a huffing Black Bear sounds intimidating, it is actually bluster made by an apprehensive bear. Huffing\u00a0does not lead to an attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though I knew the bear was all bluster, this\u00a0was the first time a bear had addressed me this way and the interaction prompted\u00a0a mixture of delight and concern. I drifted\u00a0away leaving\u00a0the bear to continue trashing\u00a0the tree.<\/p>\n<p>A Black Bear in a tree expresses its apprehension towards me by huffing.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17940\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blackbear160718bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, we parted amicably.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17941\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blackbear160718as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Black Bear in a tree huffed at me. The bear was about three metres above the ground feasting on\u00a0bitter\u00a0cherries when it decided that I had wandered\u00a0too close. It let me know its feelings. While a huffing Black Bear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17939\">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-17939","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\/17939","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=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}