{"id":123957,"date":"2025-10-15T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:11:07","slug":"cave-stalker-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123957\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave Stalker | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beckett Robertson&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Beckett Robertson (Canada) finds an amblypygid on a cave ceiling in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Beckett had to position himself carefully between the stalactites and stalagmites, as the cave was full of spiders.<\/p>\n<p>The amblypygids\u2019 antenna-like legs were in constant motion, but eventually stopped long enough for him to take this image.<\/p>\n<p>Amblypygids can be found in caves, crevices, under leaf litter and even in termite nests.<\/p>\n<p>They belong to a group of animals also known as whip spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Their front pair of legs have evolved into long, whip-like limbs they use as sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beckett Robertson&#8217;s Image Beckett Robertson (Canada) finds an amblypygid on a cave ceiling in the Dominican Republic. Beckett&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}