{"id":21686,"date":"2017-08-29T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21686"},"modified":"2017-08-31T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:10:21","slug":"not-a-chipmunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21686","title":{"rendered":"Not a chipmunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I noticed a touristy website that tried to pass off a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel as being a Chipmunk (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13427\">posting<\/a>). Fascinated by this ineptitude, I searched stock-photo sites and discovered that it wasn&#8217;t uncommon to label pictures of a Golden-mantle Ground Squirrel as being a Chipmunk. As I noted at the time, one should not turn to stock-photo companies for biological insights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mistake is easy to make if the viewer applies an algorithm for squirrels:\u00a0<em>stripes mean chipmunk<\/em>. The problem is that it isn&#8217;t true. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18006\">chipmunk<\/a> has multiple white stripes that extend from its back to its head (another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20678\">example<\/a>), the much larger Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel has two white stripes, one on each side, and neither extends to its head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel enjoys a snack high in a subalpine forest. The single white stripe on either side does not extend to the head.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21687\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goldenmantledgroundsquirrel17087bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason for the designaton of <em>golden mantle<\/em>\u00a0isn&#8217;t always obvious, but here the golden pelage on the head and shoulders is abundantly clear.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21688\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goldenmantledgroundsquirrel17087as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two years ago, I noticed a touristy website that tried to pass off a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel as being a Chipmunk (posting). Fascinated by this ineptitude, I searched stock-photo sites and discovered that it wasn&#8217;t uncommon to label pictures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21686\">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-21686","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\/21686","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=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21767,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions\/21767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}