{"id":215276,"date":"2025-10-15T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:00:08","slug":"ocean-lion-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215276\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Lion | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griet Van Malderen&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Griet Van Malderen (Belgium) sets the scene as Gamma, a female lion, guards a Cape fur seal carcass.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting a seal carcass, Gamma waits for her family against a tempestuous Skeleton Coast backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Around 80 lions live in this extreme environment where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean, and only six are known to hunt seals.<\/p>\n<p>Griet has seen first-hand how the hunting behaviour of desert lions has changed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a drought wiped out vast numbers of zebras, springboks and ostriches. That\u2019s when these big cats began targeting coastal prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griet Van Malderen&#8217;s Image Griet Van Malderen (Belgium) sets the scene as Gamma, a female lion, guards a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,34930,131366,131365,72090,131364,131363],"class_list":["post-215276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nature-photography","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}