{"id":33632,"date":"2013-02-22T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=33632"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:52:32","slug":"morning-eye-candy-busiest-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/02\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-busiest-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: The Busiest of Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is a first for us on <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\">Plant Talk<\/a>, but I figure this beaver&#8217;s visit to our neck of the river is as good an excuse as any to toss a couple GIFs up on the blog. These animations (along with a few others I&#8217;ve got up my sleeve; maybe you can see those later) were pieced together from a series of individual frames snapped by one of several motion-activated critter cams we have monitoring the woodsy areas of the Garden.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/08\/around-the-garden\/where-the-wild-things-are\/\">These cameras have captured everything from owls to foxes<\/a>, and now they&#8217;re documenting the beavers which have called the Bronx River home for at least the past few years. This is important mainly because Justin and Jos\u00e9 Beaver (hard to tell which one this is, if either) are the first of their species to be seen in New York City in over two centuries!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-6-3.gif\"><img data-attachment-id=\"33651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/02\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-busiest-beaver\/attachment\/beaver-6-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-6-3.gif\" data-orig-size=\"567,297\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Them beavers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-6-3-300x157.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-6-3.gif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33651\" alt=\"Them beavers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-6-3.gif\" width=\"567\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be keeping you up to date with all the beaver news that comes our way, but for now, enjoy our paddle-tailed friend demonstrating his feats of Mighty-Mouse-like strength and generally wandering around. Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-4-2.gif\"><img data-attachment-id=\"33633\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/02\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-busiest-beaver\/attachment\/beaver-4-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-4-2.gif\" data-orig-size=\"567,321\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bronx River Beavers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-4-2-300x169.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-4-2.gif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33633 alignleft\" alt=\"Bronx River Beavers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Beaver-4-2.gif\" width=\"567\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first GIFs on Plant Talk! Check out this local beaver&#8217;s feat of chompy strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"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":[3042,2394,3045,3041,3044,3043,1512,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8Ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632"}],"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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33632"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33652,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632\/revisions\/33652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}