{"id":57767,"date":"2024-11-15T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/?p=57767"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:03:10","slug":"deutsch-riesenhirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/info\/deutsch-riesenhirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deer today are mammals adapted to forest life. Their teeth reveal that they eat branches, twigs and leaves, as well as grass. They are called mixed-feeders. One of the icons of the glacial era is the giant deer. This extinct deer species gets its name from the gigantic antlers that male animals grew and discarded each year. These antlers could reach a span of over 3 metres! The female deer did not grow them. Obviously, with such enormous antlers,<br \/>\nit would be difficult to manoeuvre in a wooded area. The giant deer was an inhabitant of the plains that are so characteristic of the mammoth steppe in the last part of the glacial period. No, the giant deer was not the biggest deer of all time. Extinct moose from the beginning of the Pleistocene were. Modern moose are also giants among deer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deer today are mammals adapted to forest life. Their teeth reveal that they eat branches, twigs and leaves, as well as grass. They are called mixed-feeders. One of the icons of the glacial era is the giant deer. This extinct deer species gets its name from the gigantic antlers that male animals grew and discarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}