{"id":128189,"date":"2015-09-29T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/elk-selfies-are-darwin-at-work.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T18:07:42","slug":"elk-selfies-are-darwin-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/elk-selfies-are-darwin-at-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Elk Selfies are Darwin at work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Criminy, people, have you seen<\/i> what these critters do<\/i> with their antlers? Do you think they are audio-animatronics, or tame pets that are trotted out by handlers into picture-taking distance?<\/p>\n

The last thing you will catch me<\/i> doing is getting up close to a wild animal with a head full of spikes, then turning my back to get a picture with it. But if you<\/i> want to do so, please, go right ahead. The human genetic pool could use some sweeping.<\/p>\n

(Psssst! I hear that bears love<\/i> to take selfies with the tourists! The cubs are especially cute — their mommas love it when you hold them on your lap for a picture!)<\/p>\n

((Yeesh. Please don't do this, people.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nCops warn against elk selfies after antler incident<\/a><\/span>
\nElk selfies. Not a good idea.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Criminy, people, have you seen what these critters do with their antlers? Do you think they are audio-animatronics, or tame pets that are trotted out by handlers into picture-taking distance? The last thing you will catch me doing is getting up close to a wild animal with a head full of spikes, then turning my … Continue reading “Elk Selfies are Darwin at work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47438,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/selfies-account-gets-canceled.html","url_meta":{"origin":128189,"position":0},"title":""Selfie"'s account gets canceled","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Nov-14 9:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kind of a shame. This is one of the few sitcoms I've watched and enjoyed in the last few years decades, and I enjoyed both the conceit of the story, and both Gillen and Cho and their reworking of Pygmalion.We still have eps on the DVR, so I suppose there;s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/to-see-oursels-as-ithers-see-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":128189,"position":1},"title":""To see oursels as ithers see us"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Oct-13 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure how this article jibes with the \"selfies\" article from the NYTimes the other day (see https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/o-wad-some-powr-the-giftie-gie-us-2.html), but two observations:1. Yes, seeing yourself not-in-a-mirror is sometimes a bit jarring. \u00a0(That\u00a0also gets into all that \"mirror image\" option stuff\u00a0in video conference tools like Hangouts.)2. 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