{"id":305272,"date":"2025-10-15T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305272\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:57:09","slug":"ocean-lion-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305272\/","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":3,"featured_media":305273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,17500,67,132,68,80059,154531,154529,154530,154528],"class_list":{"0":"post-305272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-nature-photography","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wildlife-competition","17":"tag-wildlife-images","18":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","19":"tag-wildphoto","20":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378064590525665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}