{"id":4507,"date":"2019-02-27T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2019-02-27T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:51:44","slug":"4507-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2019\/02\/27\/4507-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bear Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_1095-1-e1551299161989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4510 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_1095-1-e1551299161989-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Division 8 learned that polar bears have unique structural features that enable it to live in its frigid environment.&nbsp; Polar bears have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an outer layer of fur called &#8220;guard hair&#8221; which are thin clear tubes filled with air.&nbsp; Guard hair is waterproof.<\/li>\n<li>a layer of dense fur called &#8220;under fur&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>black skin that absorbs heat from the sun<\/li>\n<li>a 4-6 inch layer of blubber under the skin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_1150-e1551299220713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4511 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_1150-e1551299220713-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did some experiments to see how these features work.&nbsp; <em>Ask me what we did.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Division 8 learned that polar bears have unique structural features that enable it to live in its frigid environment.&nbsp; Polar bears have: an outer layer of fur called &#8220;guard hair&#8221; which are thin clear tubes filled with air.&nbsp; Guard hair is waterproof. a layer of<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2019\/02\/27\/4507-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/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\/4507"}],"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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}