{"id":207946,"date":"2026-03-27T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:45:11","slug":"the-purr-fect-shot-florida-panther-gives-photographer-a-moment-shell-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207946\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018purr\u2019-fect shot? Florida panther gives photographer a moment she\u2019ll never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>Photographer gets up close and personal with Florida panther <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A wildlife photographer got a once-in-a-lifetime shot she\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jo Gryniewicz was taking pictures on the boardwalk at the Audubon\u2019s Corkscrew Sanctuary near Naples this weekend, when a very rare visitor showed up out of nowhere: an endangered Florida panther emerged from the bushes just 30 feet away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gryniewicz says the big cat seemed as surprised to see her as she was to see it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After a few amazing moments, the panther vanished into the brush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gryniewicz said she could not believe she kept her cool long enough to capture the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florida panthers are on the endangered species list. There are only about 200 left in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Steve Owen \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/cbb8cee1-30fb-4fd9-a8.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Steve Owen <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Steve Owen is the Assistant News Director at WPLG, and helps lead the daily news operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM Photographer gets up close and personal with Florida panther COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-207946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}