{"id":1896,"date":"2015-01-31T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2015-01-31T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:29:40","slug":"life-on-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2015\/01\/31\/life-on-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

For eight months a year, the ice-covered water of Hudson Bay\u00a0is the polar bear’s home.\u00a0 How does the polar bear survive there for so long?\u00a0 \"OLYMPUS<\/a>This drawing of ta polar bear is eight feet tall.\u00a0 Some male polar bears can be ten feet tall when they are standing on their back legs.\u00a0 Division 10 learned that the polar bears have bodies that\u00a0are suited for living on the ice.\u00a0\u00a0Their unique features, or adaptations, help keep them\u00a0warm.\u00a0 <\/span>Polar bears have two layers of fur . . . an outer layer that\u00a0sheds snow, ice and water and a layer of dense fur that keeps heat from escaping.\u00a0 A polar bear also has black skin.\u00a0 The\u00a0skin\u00a0helps to attract heat.\u00a0\u00a0Under the skin is a thick layer of fat called blubber.\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For eight months a year, the ice-covered water of Hudson Bay\u00a0is the polar bear’s home.\u00a0 How does the polar bear survive there for so long?\u00a0 This drawing of ta polar bear is eight feet tall.\u00a0 Some male polar bears can be ten feet tall whenRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}