{"id":217139,"date":"2025-10-16T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:14:15","slug":"ghost-town-visitor-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217139\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Town Visitor | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wim van den Heever’s Image<\/p>\n

Wim van den Heever (South Africa) photographs this haunting scene of a brown hyena among the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town.<\/p>\n

“With sea fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Wim chose this spot for his camera trap after noticing hyena tracks nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me 10 years to finally get this one single image of a brown hyena, in the most perfect frame imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown hyenas are the rarest hyena species in the world. They\u2019re nocturnal and mostly solitary.<\/p>\n

They pass through Kolmanskop on their way to hunt Cape fur seal pups or scavenge for carrion washed ashore along the Namib Desert coast.”<\/p>\n

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