{"id":18731,"date":"2016-10-01T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18731"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:18:17","slug":"black-grizzlies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18731","title":{"rendered":"Black grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I saw black grizzly bears <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8918\">three years ago<\/a>, I was puzzled for I hadn&#8217;t realized that black was even an option for grizzlies. It is, but\u00a0a somewhat uncommon one. When a black grizzly family was\u00a0seen this week, it was\u00a0only about three hundred metres from where the earlier family\u00a0had been seen.<\/p>\n<p>A family of black grizzly bears was foraging for kokanee salmon in a stream.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18733\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/grizzly160929s_dmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sow eyed an intruder suspiciously. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18734\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/grizzly160929bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She sent her cubs towards the woods.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18732\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/grizzly160929cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When she\u00a0stood to get a better look, she provided\u00a0me with a calendar-ready picture.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18735\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/grizzly160929a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I saw black grizzly bears three years ago, I was puzzled for I hadn&#8217;t realized that black was even an option for grizzlies. It is, but\u00a0a somewhat uncommon one. When a black grizzly family was\u00a0seen this week, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18731\">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-18731","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\/18731","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=18731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18737,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions\/18737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}