{"id":3065,"date":"2013-11-24T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T09:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2013-11-24T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T09:49:58","slug":"bristol-post-balls-ungulate-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3065","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls &#8211; ungulate identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horses and cattle are both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ungulate\">ungulates<\/a>, i.e. both use the tips of their toes to support their whole body weight whilst moving. Both cows and horses have hooves.<\/p>\n<p>A horse is an odd-toed ungulate with a long hairy mane and tale, whilst a cow is an even-toed ungulate. They&#8217;re easy to identify, unless you&#8217;re a city-based employee of the Bristol Post.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/100-horses-tragic-rescue-attempt-Bristol-charity\/story-20167705-detail\/story.html\">published a tragic story<\/a> of more than 100 horses having to be put down after being rescued from appalling conditions in Bridgend in the Vale of Glamorgan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the picture used to illustrate the report features animals that look more bovine than equine, as revealed by the screenshot below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3066\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/horses.png\" alt=\"screenshot from Bristol Post\" width=\"600\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/horses.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/horses-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frisians or Dobbins?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just because both beef and horsemeat taste equally good on the plate doesn&#8217;t means they are interchangeable in the field, Bristol Post. Try saddling up a cow and entering a steeplechase! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses and cattle are both ungulates, i.e. both use the tips of their toes to support their whole body weight whilst moving. Both cows and horses have hooves. A horse is an odd-toed ungulate with a long hairy mane and tale, whilst a cow is an even-toed ungulate. They&#8217;re easy to identify, unless you&#8217;re a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[40,10,33],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-facepalm","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}