{"id":42208,"date":"2025-09-25T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:23:08","slug":"mating-rituals-of-endangered-leopard-sharks-filmed-in-scientific-first-nz-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42208\/","title":{"rendered":"Mating rituals of endangered Leopard sharks filmed in scientific first &#8211; NZ Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxPakFKTloyV2NqNUFqWmoyTXdRaWpSQVpCSFRtcWlLTWVEMHdIQkwwbnN3MDRnNWx1Sm9ZdUxWWHhxWWxnQ0ItTWtyS0hUMTJEcmdkc0VYcXZRVmRZdWlLOTY2czk3eG9MR0NmM2hzdkhqODJhZWZQc3puRjNwb2Fmd21OZklqUGF1YXZnbFhuUzljUjlLTHlmbkZyd1JwSnhMVWVORWNTbnBZb3Z5a0NQQjZTX0lOM2FINVVUYVJFQl9NNEN5QW50aWc0UDZlNFA0SGprM2tZaFB2dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mating rituals of endangered Leopard sharks filmed in scientific first<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPS2tDNVZrSDByNEFMUUNuSGFaNm56aTlkU19mMmZJN09ab3VqdlJCWWd0Y0VhTWhZdmtua3JhNloydVdzM1BNaUo4c25tLUJGWkJkY1hoOVNmS01aaDJMb2N3Q2lzbEE5X2dnVTQzUjZ5bVVBMDRycnlacGhRRmdRbGFpaGFVMmxNU0MzSmxCSDh0Nk5kQnpLcERoZzQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cI waited an hour, freezing in the water&#8221;: Diver spots sharks motionless on seabed. What happened next has never been filmed before<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC Wildlife Magazine<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNbjRmVGNiLVg3NUNTMC1JaU9kQUl5cnhEbGJQNEljcmcyMWVlNVRNTDFuc0VhNDV0eGtGVV9uenNIR01hRjJpV2c2SmdEOXcxTW9RWGhRaEF4T2xpNjFRM1l4YkNBbEZvWVJqR1MwM2llem5lRy0zVHVzUXl3eFc4bXZRN01BQzJLelRPSnIyQmtNVlFNd1NQalM3U0xxaFJtLXRGTWh3RWFRQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Involved sequentially\u2019: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mating rituals of endangered Leopard sharks filmed in scientific first&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald\u201cI waited an hour, freezing in the water&#8221;:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,43,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-42208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208","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=42208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}