{"id":8873,"date":"2016-10-27T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2016-10-27T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T01:11:12","slug":"as-winter-approaches-wild-montana-mustangs-depend-on-snowpack-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/as-winter-approaches-wild-montana-mustangs-depend-on-snowpack-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;As Winter Approaches, Wild Montana Mustangs Depend on Snowpack for Survival&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, <em>Weather Underground<\/em> published a fascinating story about wild horses and their dependence on snow for water at high elevations. \u00a0They have adapted to the harsh local conditions and have learned to eat snow for their water in the winter months. \u00a0They migrate up and down the slopes as the snowpack comes and goes. \u00a0I think you will enjoy reading about these mustangs too. \u00a0The article is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/wild-montana-mustangs-depend-on-snowpack?__prclt=5U6EZExJ\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/wild-montana-mustangs-depend-on-snowpack?__prclt=5U6EZExJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8874\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Wild_Mustang_19792213999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8874\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Wild_Mustang_19792213999-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: BLM Nevada via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Wild_Mustang_19792213999-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Wild_Mustang_19792213999-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/Wild_Mustang_19792213999.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: BLM Nevada via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Weather Underground published a fascinating story about wild horses and their dependence on snow for water at high elevations. \u00a0They have adapted to the harsh local conditions and have learned to eat snow for their water in the winter months. \u00a0They migrate up and down the slopes as the snowpack comes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}