{"id":82286,"date":"2025-10-15T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82286\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:08:08","slug":"slime-family-portrait-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82286\/","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":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-82286","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\/82286","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=82286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82286\/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=82286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}