{"id":32180,"date":"2022-10-13T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32180"},"modified":"2022-10-13T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:01:22","slug":"elk-harem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32180","title":{"rendered":"Elk &#038; harem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -12px; margin-left: 8px; width: 90px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">home again<\/p>\n<p>For much of the year, elk travel in herds of females and juveniles. Separately, males travel in smaller herds or as individuals. However come fall, a male will form a harem of perhaps a half-dozen to a score of females, and mate with each one.<\/p>\n<p>I encountered a group of at least a half-dozen females, and one male. It was a little difficult to tell the number as they kept dipping in and out of the foliage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was twilight as I encountered the harem. The first view of the male was from the side.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/elk221009bs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were perhaps over a half-dozen females in this harem.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32182\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/elk221009ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is some of a number of females hanging around in the harem.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/elk221009cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male looks on.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32184\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/elk221009as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; home again For much of the year, elk travel in herds of females and juveniles. Separately, males travel in smaller herds or as individuals. However come fall, a male will form a harem of perhaps a half-dozen to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32180\">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-32180","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\/32180","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=32180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32195,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180\/revisions\/32195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}