{"id":22019,"date":"2017-10-18T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22019"},"modified":"2017-10-18T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:39:09","slug":"stotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22019","title":{"rendered":"Stotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take many encounters with mule deer before one is seen to stot.<\/p>\n<p>Stotting is a rather unusual gait. Most quadrupeds can walk, trot, and gallop. But to these gaits the mule deer adds stotting. It is the only stotting animal around here. (The white-tailed deer, common in the valleys, does not stot.)<\/p>\n<p>This mule deer is walking, a slow gait that involves moving only one leg at a time (30 April 2014).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22022\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/muledeer140630s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This mule deer is trotting: a gait that moves diagonally opposite legs together (12 April, 2011). <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22021\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/muledeertrotting110412s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend&#8217;s mule deer is stotting: it springs into the air with stiff legs, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously.  <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22020\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/muledeer171014as2dmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a stotting deer travels over the ground, it spends most of its time in the air.  <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22020\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/muledeer171014bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t take many encounters with mule deer before one is seen to stot. Stotting is a rather unusual gait. Most quadrupeds can walk, trot, and gallop. But to these gaits the mule deer adds stotting. It is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22019\">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-22019","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\/22019","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=22019"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22033,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions\/22033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}