{"id":5052,"date":"2012-05-02T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2012-05-02T06:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:59:05","slug":"swivelling-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"Swivelling ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5058\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5058\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/muledeer120422c2DT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ear maitenance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have five local species in the deer family (the cervids): moose, elk, caribou, mule deer, white-tailed deer. A short time ago, I included pictures of <a title=\"Mammal portraits\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4936\">moose and white-tailed deer<\/a>. Added today are mule deer and elk.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures of mule deer were taken on a local mountainside\u00a0by Doug Thorburn; At about the same time I was watching some elk. So, why not post them together? Mule deer are named for their oversized ears&#8212;a feature supposedly reminiscent\u00a0of a mule. This prompted the theme: the swivelling ears of cervids. All of the pictures show females.<\/p>\n<p>Aware of the photographer, a mule deer has its ears swivelled to the front.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5056\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/muledeer120422aDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When facing the other way, mule deer continue to monitor the photographer by swivelling their ears to the back.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5055\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/muledeer120422bDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This elk has is ears swivelled to hear what is behind it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5053\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/elk120430bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While this one is both watching and listening to what is in front.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5057\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/elk120430s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Doug Thorburn&#8217;s pictures of mule deer are used with permission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We have five local species in the deer family (the cervids): moose, elk, caribou, mule deer, white-tailed deer. A short time ago, I included pictures of moose and white-tailed deer. Added today are mule deer and elk. The pictures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5052\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","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\/5052","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=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}