{"id":6520,"date":"2012-02-08T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:57","slug":"sea-otter-vs-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/08\/sea-otter-vs-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Otter vs. Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6521\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/08\/sea-otter-vs-ice\/arctic-sea-otter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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=\"Arctic Sea Otter\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Arctic sea otter relaxes in the water&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6521\" title=\"Arctic Sea Otter\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg\" alt=\"Arctic Sea Otter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This video of a sea otter and ice is too cute not to watch.\u00a0 For those of you who play Zoo Tycoon and wondered why you had to keep buying food in ice blocks, this is a real life example of what an animal might do with it.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Vancouver Aquarium&#8217;s animal enrichment program, food is frozen inside a block of ice for the otter to break free.\u00a0 In nature, a sea otter would use a rock to break open his food, typically a shellfish of some sort.\u00a0 The Vancouver Aquarium found that giving the otters rock resulted in a lot of scratched-up glass.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxflImz8ISU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arctic Sea Otter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=sea+otter&amp;photos=on&amp;search_group=&amp;horizontal=on&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1&amp;secondary_submit=Search#id=44312143&amp;src=p-113368\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic sea otter<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video of a sea otter and ice is too cute not to watch.  For those of you who play Zoo Tycoon and wondered why you had to keep buying food in ice blocks, this is a real life example of what an animal might do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[2854,663,1939,2290],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Arctic-Sea-Otter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}