{"id":19866,"date":"2017-04-01T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19866"},"modified":"2017-04-01T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:07:02","slug":"otter-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19866","title":{"rendered":"Otter twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When climbing out of the Lake, many animals disperse water by twisting and shaking. Dogs do it, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14512\">eagles<\/a> do it, and otters do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While I had seen otters spin their heads to shake off water, I had not photographed it &#8212; that is, until two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two River Otters frolicked on a dock. In turn, each twisted to shake off water from immersion.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19867\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/otter170330cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When climbing out of the Lake, many animals disperse water by twisting and shaking. Dogs do it, eagles do it, and otters do it.\u00a0 While I had seen otters spin their heads to shake off water, I had not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19866\">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-19866","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\/19866","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=19866"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19883,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions\/19883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}