{"id":81900,"date":"2025-10-15T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:45:11","slug":"slime-family-portrait-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81900\/","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":81901,"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":["post-81900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81900","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=81900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}