{"id":3881,"date":"2012-01-11T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:42:39","slug":"otter-munch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3881","title":{"rendered":"Otter munches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I watched a northern river otter munch on a large-scaled sucker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: -6px; margin-left: 8px; width: 240px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/otters\/index.html\">River Otters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had failed to spot this delight on my own. Standing beside me, Derek Kite wondered about the animal on a distant dock; I wondered what he was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is interesting that the otter had started eating at the fish&#8217;s tail. Birds seem to do things the other way around and start with the head. Such bird behaviour is shown on my postings, <a title=\"Head first\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=783\">Head first<\/a>, and <a title=\"Kestrel bonanza\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2374\">Kestrel Bonanza<\/a>. Indeed, one commentator noted that birds eat the brains first because eating brains is like, &#8220;eating a\u00a0cheesecake\u00a0followed by a box of sugar donuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A check of images online shows the otter to be\u00a0capricious\u00a0on this point, it seems to start at whichever end is handy.<\/p>\n<p>This otter is eating a rather large sucker tail first.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3883\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/otter120110as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I watched a northern river otter munch on a large-scaled sucker. The Kootenay Lake website offers more pictures of local River Otters I had failed to spot this delight on my own. Standing beside me, Derek Kite wondered about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}