{"id":12077,"date":"2011-07-26T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:36:34","slug":"chilling-out-at-the-garden-wildlife-in-the-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/07\/wildlife\/chilling-out-at-the-garden-wildlife-in-the-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling Out At the Garden: Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Thomas C. Andres is an Honorary Research Associate at the Garden.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Humans weren’t the only ones suffering during last week’s record-breaking heatwave. The Garden’s plants and animals were also feeling the heat. And while the plants relied upon human-intervention<\/a> to maintain their cool, the Garden’s feathered and fluffy residents were able to take matters into their own hands, paws, and wings.<\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism One: Cool Off the Belly On a Mossy Tree Trunk<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong> Eastern Gray Squirrel<\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Two: Sip a Mimosa
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\"Tiger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiger Swallowtail feeding on the nectar of a Mimosa tree, Albizia julibrissin<\/em><\/p>\n


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Coping Mechanism Three: Snack On Some Fruit
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\"Blue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blue Jay eating a fruit from the flowering crabapple, Malus<\/em> ‘Dolgo’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Four: Head For the Water<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Great Blue Heron over Twin Lakes<\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Five: Take a Nap<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Male<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Male Mallard on the banks of the Bronx River <\/strong><\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Six: Splash Around In A Cool Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Catbird\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gray Catbird in the spring that feeds Twin Lakes <\/strong><\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Seven: Take A Bath<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Female<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Female Baltimore Oriole <\/strong><\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Eight: Hit the Old Swimming Hole<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Double-Crested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Double-Crested Cormorant in the Bronx River <\/strong><\/p>\n

Coping Mechanism Nine: If All Else Fails, Drastic Measures May Be Necessary<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Muskrats\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Muskrats in Twin Lakes
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All photos by Thomas Andres<\/a>.
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During last week’s heat wave, the Garden’s plants were beholden to humans for relief. But the Garden’s feather and fluffy friends were able to take matters into their own hands, paws, and wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[172,1652,1651,1653,38,985,4640,4648,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/muskrats.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-38N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12095,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions\/12095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}