{"id":82397,"date":"2025-10-15T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82397\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:20:07","slug":"cave-stalker-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82397\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave Stalker | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beckett Robertson&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Beckett Robertson (Canada) finds an amblypygid on a cave ceiling in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Beckett had to position himself carefully between the stalactites and stalagmites, as the cave was full of spiders.<\/p>\n<p>The amblypygids\u2019 antenna-like legs were in constant motion, but eventually stopped long enough for him to take this image.<\/p>\n<p>Amblypygids can be found in caves, crevices, under leaf litter and even in termite nests.<\/p>\n<p>They belong to a group of animals also known as whip spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Their front pair of legs have evolved into long, whip-like limbs they use as sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beckett Robertson&#8217;s Image Beckett Robertson (Canada) finds an amblypygid on a cave ceiling in the Dominican Republic. Beckett&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82398,"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":["post-82397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","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\/82397","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=82397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}