{"id":21670,"date":"2017-08-28T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21670"},"modified":"2017-08-28T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:51:26","slug":"eeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21670","title":{"rendered":"EEEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; Now I remember only <br \/>\n The long ascent of the lonely valley, the live <br \/>\n Pine spirally scarred by lightning, the slicing pipe <br \/>\n Of invisible pika&#8230;.\u00a0<br \/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>David, by Earle Birney (1942)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The slicing pipe of the pika (invisible or not) is: &#8220;EEEP&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Birney&#8217;s reference to the call of the invisible pika resonates with hikers adjacent to talus in the subalpine of Western North America: the furtive pika is heard much more often than it is seen.<\/p>\n<p>A pika issues its call of EEEP upon spotting an interloper in its world. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21671\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pika170827cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\n\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another pika doesn&#8217;t seem to know it is being watched when it presents its profile to the camera.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21672\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pika170827bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\n\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently secure in its invisibility this pika strikes a hero&#8217;s pose. <br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21673\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pika170827as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\n\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8230; Now I remember only The long ascent of the lonely valley, the live Pine spirally scarred by lightning, the slicing pipe Of invisible pika&#8230;.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0David, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21670\">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-21670","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\/21670","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=21670"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21684,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}