{"id":369047,"date":"2026-01-14T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:11:09","slug":"amphipod-species-with-panda-like-coloring-discovered-in-wakayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369047\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphipod species with panda-like coloring discovered in Wakayama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    WAKAYAMA \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Two new amphipod species with black-and-white coloring patterns like a giant panda have been found in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the prefecture hope that the novel creatures will be a new local tourism resource after four giant pandas raised at Adventure World, a leisure facility in Shirahama, were returned to China last year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the black-and-white amphipods, which resembles a shrimp and measures 5 to 8 millimeters in length, was found in a coastal area of Shirahama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKAYAMA \u2013 Two new amphipod species with black-and-white coloring patterns like a giant panda have been found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[141030,2851,141028,65090,90,141029,56,54,55,141027,4407],"class_list":["post-369047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-amphipods","tag-animals","tag-aquariums","tag-pandas","tag-science","tag-shirahama","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wakayama","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369047","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=369047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}