{"id":215468,"date":"2025-10-15T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:46:07","slug":"slime-family-portrait-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215468\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime Family Portrait | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kutub Uddin&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh\/UK) spots a line of alien-like slime moulds on a fallen tree.<\/p>\n<p>Kutub found these blueberry-like spheres in Slindon Wood, West Sussex, UK.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re the reproductive parts of a slime mould, each just 1\u20132 millimetres in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>His image resembles a fantasy landscape. However, he describes the scene as a \u201cbizarre family portrait\u201d, complete with a tiny yellow insect egg.<\/p>\n<p>A slime mould is a community of mobile single-celled, amoeba-like organisms.<\/p>\n<p>The organisms live independently until they come together and work as one to find food and reproduce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kutub Uddin&#8217;s Image Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh\/UK) spots a line of alien-like slime moulds on a fallen tree. Kutub&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215469,"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-215468","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\/215468","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=215468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}