{"id":305427,"date":"2025-10-15T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305427\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:18:12","slug":"training-day-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305427\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Day | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hua Dai&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Hua Dai (China) observes a brief pause during a puma cub training session.<\/p>\n<p>Hua first heard the scream of a guanaco, followed by the growls of the female puma summoning the cubs he\u2019d been tracking in Torres del Paine National Park.<\/p>\n<p>When Hua arrived, the guanaco was still alive, unable to escape, and covered in bite marks.<\/p>\n<p>Puma cubs initially follow and observe their mother hunting.<\/p>\n<p>At six to ten months old, they begin learning how to find, stalk and kill smaller animals \u2013 lessons essential to their survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hua Dai&#8217;s Image Hua Dai (China) observes a brief pause during a puma cub training session. Hua first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17500,159,67,132,68,837,80059,154531,154529,154530,154528],"class_list":{"0":"post-305427","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378382886396405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305427","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=305427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}