{"id":81509,"date":"2025-10-15T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81509\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:35:10","slug":"cornered-cobra-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81509\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornered Cobra | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jithesh Pai&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Jithesh Pai (India) watches as a Western Ghats king cobra is rescued by a conservation team.<\/p>\n<p>Jithesh was accompanying the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station (ARRS) rescue and release team.<\/p>\n<p>He came face to face with the world\u2019s largest venomous snake as it sought refuge in a house.<\/p>\n<p>He used a head torch to light the scene before the cobra was safely caught and released into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>During the breeding season, king cobras often go into human settlements in search of mates and food.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations like ARRS are running conservation and education efforts. They monitor and relocate snakes for the safety of both humans and animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jithesh Pai&#8217;s Image Jithesh Pai (India) watches as a Western Ghats king cobra is rescued by a conservation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-81509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-nature-photography","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81509","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=81509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}