{"id":81239,"date":"2025-10-16T02:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81239\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:07:19","slug":"long-jaws-locked-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81239\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Jaws Locked | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas (Germany) spots this mating pair of long-jawed orb weavers on the wooden rail of a boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis was on a guided nature walk in a Berlin wetland when he came across this scene.<\/p>\n<p>He used a technique called focus stacking to combine 27 images taken from a fixed position into one, using specialist software.<\/p>\n<p>These two long-jawed orb weaver spiders are mating. Their jaws, known as chelicerae, are locked together.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller male (below) transfers sperm to the female from one of its pedipalps, a secondary pair of forward appendages found in spiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas&#8217;s Image Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas (Germany) spots this mating pair of long-jawed orb weavers on the wooden rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5924,111,139,69,147,406,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-81239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81239","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=81239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}