{"id":29743,"date":"2020-12-01T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29743"},"modified":"2021-02-06T03:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T11:38:38","slug":"coyote-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29743","title":{"rendered":"Coyote poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a friend sent me some pictures from the Comedy Wildlife Photographic Awards from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comedywildlifephoto.com\/gallery\/finalists\/2017_winners.php\">2017<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>OK, when I take shots of wildlife, my objective is to understand their world &#8212; not to poke fun at it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, have I ever taken a picture worthy of showing on comedy wildlife? Likely not. However, among the 2017 winners there is a picture of a (female) fox piddling in a golf hole. Devoid of the caption, (&#8220;Must have a three putter&#8221; &#8212; Huh?) is it funny? Hard to say. Incongruous is probably a better description.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have taken a number (to my mind of non-funny) of shots of animals pooping (context may matter here): a moose piddling and birds defecating. Could it be that someone would find one of them funny?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closest I could come is this picture of a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>A coyote expresses contempt for humanity by pooping in the middle of a highway (8 May 2015).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29744\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coyote150508s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Recently, a friend sent me some pictures from the Comedy Wildlife Photographic Awards from 2017.\u00a0 Interesting. OK, when I take shots of wildlife, my objective is to understand their world &#8212; not to poke fun at it. Yet, have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29743\">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-29743","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\/29743","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=29743"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30058,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743\/revisions\/30058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}