{"id":79728,"date":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/79728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","slug":"the-welcoming-turtle-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/79728\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welcoming Turtle | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Stout&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Common snapping turtles have a fearsome reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But Jake finds them to be calm and inquisitive.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s photographed them in this lake for over four years. In that time, he\u2019s discovered the turtles\u2019 dramatically different personalities and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>Snapping turtles weigh up to 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds). They can strike with speed and deliver a powerful bite when they\u2019re hunting, though they\u2019re also scavengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Stout&#8217;s Image Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,5924,111,139,69,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-79728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79728","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=79728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}