{"id":29926,"date":"2021-01-01T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29926"},"modified":"2021-01-01T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:34:11","slug":"spike-elk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29926","title":{"rendered":"Spike elk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visit any elk herd at this time of year and you will find it largely composed of females. Yet, now and then, among them there is a spike elk &#8212; a yearling male which has already grown single-prong antlers. Strangely, these, so called, spike elk, are prized by hunters. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>A spike elk is a familiar member of a female herd.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29927\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elk210101as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Visit any elk herd at this time of year and you will find it largely composed of females. Yet, now and then, among them there is a spike elk &#8212; a yearling male which has already grown single-prong antlers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29926\">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-29926","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\/29926","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=29926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29928,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926\/revisions\/29928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}