{"id":502351,"date":"2025-10-15T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502351\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:23:11","slug":"cat-amongst-the-flamingos-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502351\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Amongst the Flamingos | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Stogsdill&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Stogsdill (USA) witnesses a caracal hunting a lesser flamingo in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis had been keeping an eye out for wild cats such as servals for several days when a call came over the radio. One had been seen at Ndutu Lake.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t a serval.<\/p>\n<p>It was a caracal, successfully hunting wading lesser flamingos.<\/p>\n<p>Caracals have a varied diet, from insects to antelope. They\u2019re renowned for the acrobatic leaps they make to snatch birds from the air.<\/p>\n<p>But there are few, if any, records of them hunting flamingos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Stogsdill&#8217;s Image Dennis Stogsdill (USA) witnesses a caracal hunting a lesser flamingo in the Serengeti National Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502352,"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-502351","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\/115380054124739495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502351","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=502351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}