{"id":504529,"date":"2025-10-16T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504529\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:01:36","slug":"slime-family-portrait-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504529\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime Family Portrait | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kutub Uddin&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh\/UK) spots a line of alien-like slime moulds on a fallen tree.<\/p>\n<p>Kutub found these blueberry-like spheres in Slindon Wood, West Sussex, UK.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re the reproductive parts of a slime mould, each just 1\u20132 millimetres in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>His image resembles a fantasy landscape. However, he describes the scene as a \u201cbizarre family portrait\u201d, complete with a tiny yellow insect egg.<\/p>\n<p>A slime mould is a community of mobile single-celled, amoeba-like organisms.<\/p>\n<p>The organisms live independently until they come together and work as one to find food and reproduce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kutub Uddin&#8217;s Image Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh\/UK) spots a line of alien-like slime moulds on a fallen tree. Kutub&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499941,"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-504529","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\/115384686359019846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504529","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=504529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}