{"id":10776,"date":"2025-06-24T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10776\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:05:08","slug":"extreme-heat-brings-on-sploot-season-for-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10776\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Heat Brings On &#8216;Sploot Season&#8217; for Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Humans aren&#8217;t the only creatures trying to cope with this week&#8217;s heat. The National Park Service announced that &#8220;sploot season&#8221; had arrived in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1197463582421296&amp;set=pcb.1197463649087956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a> that includes images of animals striking a &#8220;sploot&#8221; pose at various national parks. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Splooting, the NPS explains, is &#8220;when an animal sprawls out, usually face down with all arms and legs sticking out.&#8221; The creatures are typically seeking out a cooler surface and strike the pose as a way to lower body temperature. Animals of all sizes partake, particularly squirrels.<\/li>\n<li> Yes, it looks a little goofy, but it&#8217;s a sign of a real need to cool off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/06\/29\/1185092056\/squirrels-splooting-heat-wave-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR <\/a>previously explained. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to find a cool space, and if they can put as much of their core body on to a cool space, then the heat is going to transfer from their bodies to the other surface,&#8221; says Sunny Corrao of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  (More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/tag\/30711\/1\/national-park-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service<\/a> stories.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Humans aren&#8217;t the only creatures trying to cope with this week&#8217;s heat. The National Park Service announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2096,11686,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-10776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-heat","9":"tag-national-park-service","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114738490798547740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}