{"id":124021,"date":"2025-10-15T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:47:09","slug":"deadly-lessons-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124021\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Lessons | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Cano&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marina Cano (Spain) stumbles upon a group of cheetahs after they\u2019ve caught a Gu\u0308nther\u2019s dik-dik in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Marina watched the three young cheetahs practise their hunting skills while their mother looked on.<\/p>\n<p>The dik-dik was tossed into the air and killed just seconds after Marina took the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Cheetah cubs spend their first two months hidden in a lair while their mother hunts.<\/p>\n<p>At around a year old, they begin joining her, learning how to stalk and which prey to pursue. This is a crucial stage in their journey to independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marina Cano&#8217;s Image Marina Cano (Spain) stumbles upon a group of cheetahs after they\u2019ve caught a Gu\u0308nther\u2019s dik-dik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124022,"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-124021","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\/124021","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=124021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}