{"id":81499,"date":"2025-10-15T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:30:09","slug":"cat-amongst-the-flamingos-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81499\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Amongst the Flamingos | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Stogsdill&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Stogsdill (USA) witnesses a caracal hunting a lesser flamingo in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis had been keeping an eye out for wild cats such as servals for several days when a call came over the radio. One had been seen at Ndutu Lake.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t a serval.<\/p>\n<p>It was a caracal, successfully hunting wading lesser flamingos.<\/p>\n<p>Caracals have a varied diet, from insects to antelope. They\u2019re renowned for the acrobatic leaps they make to snatch birds from the air.<\/p>\n<p>But there are few, if any, records of them hunting flamingos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Stogsdill&#8217;s Image Dennis Stogsdill (USA) witnesses a caracal hunting a lesser flamingo in the Serengeti National Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,3741,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-81499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-nature-photography","17":"tag-wildlife-competition","18":"tag-wildlife-images","19":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","20":"tag-wildphoto","21":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}