{"id":190443,"date":"2025-10-10T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190443\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:36:10","slug":"belfast-woman-on-how-life-changing-trip-to-amazon-rainforest-led-to-career-in-zoology-the-animals-i-take-care-of-are-part-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190443\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast woman on how \u2018life-changing trip\u2019 to Amazon rainforest led to career in zoology: \u2018The animals I take care of are part of the family\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Zoologist Catherine Bennett speaks about being one of the only women in NI working in the male-dominated business of reptiles and the importance of educating future generations\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Bennett of Amazon Jungle Show with a few of her reptile friends\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/805f4fad-350e-4bb3-9866-6d49f480a54b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Catherine Bennett of Amazon Jungle Show with a few of her reptile friends<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From trekking deep into the Amazon rainforest and working with exotic species of animals to touring schools with her beloved bearded dragon Wilbur, one Northern Ireland woman who loves animals, particularly reptiles, has said that she is hoping to change people\u2019s perceptions that the creatures are \u201cscary\u201d or something to be feared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Catherine Bennett is a qualified zoologist and herpetologist from Belfast and the idea for her Amazon Jungle Show started almost 20 years ago in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoologist Catherine Bennett speaks about being one of the only women in NI working in the male-dominated business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27884,1334,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-190443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-amy-cochrane","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}