{"id":202671,"date":"2025-10-15T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202671\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:07","slug":"the-welcoming-turtle-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202671\/","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":202672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[52516,90,56,54,55,4407,87071,87070,47419,87069,87068],"class_list":["post-202671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202671","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=202671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}