{"id":13263,"date":"2023-02-07T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:44","slug":"groundhog-day-with-prof-michael-runtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/groundhog-day-with-prof-michael-runtz\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day with Prof. Michael Runtz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Groundhog Day with Prof. Michael Runtz\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"groundhog-day-with-prof-michael-runtz\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Groundhog Day with Prof. Michael Runtz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy (belated) Groundhog Day! Many groundhogs (lovingly referred to as &#8220;chonkers&#8221;) live on Carleton&#8217;s campus and have become our unofficial mascot. We checked in with Biology Instructor and wildlife expert Michael Runtz to uncover some little known secrets about our fuzzy friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.carleton.ca%2Ft%2F563523%2F3569114%2F18595%2F20%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CGinaDarya%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Cde338174170e4d3fcdd608db0850a0fc%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638112914608059400%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Q5TCaOTbOp08e9wo9USqBsCYb1pTCzLsUYVIKfH%2FPTE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Watch the video on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundhog Day with Prof. Michael Runtz Happy (belated) Groundhog Day! Many groundhogs (lovingly referred to as &#8220;chonkers&#8221;) live on Carleton&#8217;s campus and have become our unofficial mascot. We checked in with Biology Instructor and wildlife expert Michael Runtz to uncover some little known secrets about our fuzzy friends. Watch the video on Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13265,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions\/13265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}