{"id":82760,"date":"2025-10-15T18:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82760\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:56:06","slug":"deadly-lessons-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82760\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Lessons | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Cano&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marina Cano (Spain) stumbles upon a group of cheetahs after they\u2019ve caught a Gu\u0308nther\u2019s dik-dik in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Marina watched the three young cheetahs practise their hunting skills while their mother looked on.<\/p>\n<p>The dik-dik was tossed into the air and killed just seconds after Marina took the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Cheetah cubs spend their first two months hidden in a lair while their mother hunts.<\/p>\n<p>At around a year old, they begin joining her, learning how to stalk and which prey to pursue. This is a crucial stage in their journey to independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marina Cano&#8217;s Image Marina Cano (Spain) stumbles upon a group of cheetahs after they\u2019ve caught a Gu\u0308nther\u2019s dik-dik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82761,"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-82760","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\/82760","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=82760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}