{"id":8927,"date":"2013-10-06T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:21:44","slug":"two-ungulates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8927","title":{"rendered":"Two ungulates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An ungulate is a hoofed mammal (ungulate is from the Latin, <em>ungula<\/em>, meaning hoof). This region has an unusually diverse population: seven species. Some are in the cattle (bovine) family and have horns: Big-horned Sheep, Mountain Goat. Some are in the deer (cervid) family and have antlers: Moose, Elk, Caribou, Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I saw ungulates from each group: White-tailed Deer, Mountain Goat. Now, the first is fairly easy to find; the second is not.<\/p>\n<p>The White-tailed Deer are the conspicuous cervids of the valley bottoms. These two females are browsing beside a river alongside some driftwood.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8931\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/whitetaileddeer131004bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mother and her fawn are grazing (unbeknownst) within a hundred metres of some <a title=\"Black grizzlies\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8918\">grizzlies<\/a>.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8932\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/whitetaileddeer131004as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of five Mountain Goats is grazing on a steep cliff.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8933\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mountaingoat131004bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While another glances over the edge.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8934\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mountaingoat131004as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An ungulate is a hoofed mammal (ungulate is from the Latin, ungula, meaning hoof). This region has an unusually diverse population: seven species. Some are in the cattle (bovine) family and have horns: Big-horned Sheep, Mountain Goat. Some are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8927\">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-8927","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\/8927","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=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}