{"id":231942,"date":"2026-01-14T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:34:11","slug":"amphipod-species-with-panda-like-coloring-discovered-in-wakayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231942\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphipod species with panda-like coloring discovered in Wakayama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    WAKAYAMA \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Two new amphipod species with black-and-white coloring patterns like a giant panda have been found in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the prefecture hope that the novel creatures will be a new local tourism resource after four giant pandas raised at Adventure World, a leisure facility in Shirahama, were returned to China last year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the black-and-white amphipods, which resembles a shrimp and measures 5 to 8 millimeters in length, was found in a coastal area of Shirahama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKAYAMA \u2013 Two new amphipod species with black-and-white coloring patterns like a giant panda have been found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[137745,50,73299,111,139,69,25298,147,137744,137743,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-231942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-amphipods","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-aquariums","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-pandas","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-shirahama","17":"tag-wakayama","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}