{"id":502013,"date":"2025-10-15T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:23:17","slug":"the-welcoming-turtle-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welcoming Turtle | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Stout&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Common snapping turtles have a fearsome reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But Jake finds them to be calm and inquisitive.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s photographed them in this lake for over four years. In that time, he\u2019s discovered the turtles\u2019 dramatically different personalities and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>Snapping turtles weigh up to 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds). They can strike with speed and deliver a powerful bite when they\u2019re hunting, though they\u2019re also scavengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Stout&#8217;s Image Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[164060,70,16,15,1717,164059,164058,164056,164057,164055],"class_list":{"0":"post-502013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-nature-photography","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115379346282661915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}