{"id":125010,"date":"2025-10-16T03:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125010\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:41:35","slug":"ocean-lion-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125010\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Lion | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griet Van Malderen&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Griet Van Malderen (Belgium) sets the scene as Gamma, a female lion, guards a Cape fur seal carcass.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting a seal carcass, Gamma waits for her family against a tempestuous Skeleton Coast backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Around 80 lions live in this extreme environment where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean, and only six are known to hunt seals.<\/p>\n<p>Griet has seen first-hand how the hunting behaviour of desert lions has changed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a drought wiped out vast numbers of zebras, springboks and ostriches. That\u2019s when these big cats began targeting coastal prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griet Van Malderen&#8217;s Image Griet Van Malderen (Belgium) sets the scene as Gamma, a female lion, guards a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123552,"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-125010","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\/125010","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=125010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}