{"id":6347,"date":"2012-09-15T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2012-09-15T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:07:24","slug":"deer-making-its-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6347","title":{"rendered":"Deer making its bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Thorburn sent me these pictures of a mule deer buck preparing its bed. Neither of us had previously seen a deer do such a thing. It repeatedly scraped its fore hoof across the dirt until the ground was smooth and cleared of small sticks and rocks. It then lay down.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures were taken in Kokanee Glacier Park a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The first two pictures show the hoof being moved\u00a0forward\u00a0and back as it prepares the ground.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6352\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/muledeer120902asDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6351\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/muledeer120902bsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having prepared the ground, the buck lay down.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6350\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/muledeer120902csDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doug took the next two pictures prior to watching it\u00a0prepare\u00a0the ground.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6354\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/muledeer120902dsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6353\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/muledeer120902esDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Douglas Thorburn&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Doug Thorburn sent me these pictures of a mule deer buck preparing its bed. Neither of us had previously seen a deer do such a thing. It repeatedly scraped its fore hoof across the dirt until the ground was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6347\">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-6347","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\/6347","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=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}