{"id":570102,"date":"2026-05-06T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570102\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:47:08","slug":"david-attenborough-superfan-6-draws-100-animals-for-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570102\/","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough superfan, 6, draws 100 animals for his birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When I saw last year he was going to be 99, I said ‘why don’t we do 99 for him?’ And then we did it and it went everywhere and then finally got to him and a message came back,” said Max. <\/p>\n

“So this year, because he’s 100, I wanted to add one more on.”<\/p>\n

The 100th drawing took Max “all night”, Samantha said, with Max raiding some of his sister’s art supplies to perfect the flat lizard drawing. <\/p>\n

Wanting only the best for Sir David, the duo “disappeared into her room” and used some of her finest pens to make the drawing extra special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“When I saw last year he was going to be 99, I said ‘why don’t we do 99…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-570102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570102","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=570102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}