{"id":31750,"date":"2020-07-17T00:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/?post_type=custom_visuals&#038;p=31750"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T20:16:49","slug":"one-great-shot-a-grand-assemblage","status":"publish","type":"custom_visuals","link":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/videos-visuals\/one-great-shot-a-grand-assemblage\/","title":{"rendered":"One Great Shot: A Grand Assemblage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31754\" src=\"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-1200x799.jpg\" alt=\"aerial photo of blacktip shark congregation\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-520x346.jpg 520w, https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ogs-hammerheads-blacktips-900x599.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every winter, thousands of blacktip sharks migrate to the balmy waters off Palm Beach County, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>These finned snowbirds, which can grow to one-and-a-half meters long, travel from as far away as New York to feast on bony fishes. Absurdly agile, the blacktip is known to make spectacular leaps while hunting for weak and sickly prey.\u00a0By forming enormous schools in the shallows, they safeguard themselves from their nemesis, the great hammerhead.<\/p>\n<p>A few winters ago, I chartered a Cessna to photograph the aggregation from above. It was a surreal experience to see the abundance of sharks in this age of environmental degradation, and I hope this precious animal is properly protected so that future generations can enjoy them just as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every winter, thousands of blacktip sharks migrate to the balmy waters off Palm Beach County, Florida. These finned snowbirds, which can grow to one-and-a-half meters long, travel from as far away as New York to feast on bony fishes. Absurdly <\/p>\n<div class=\"excerpt\"><span>&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31751,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"acf":{"hero_video_url":null,"hero_video_caption":"","deck":"But of what? (Hint: \ud83e\udd88)","authors_group":[{"by_group":"by","contributors_group":[21556]}],"word_count_override":"100 words, 1 photo","podbean1":"","podbean2":"","redirect":"","geolocation":{"address":"Atlantic Ocean","lat":26.673847811041384,"lng":-79.73016287578125,"zoom":8,"place_id":"ChIJ_7hu48qBWgYRT1MQ81ciNKY"},"related":[31018,23079],"twitterimage":31753,"facebookimage":31752,"twitterdescription":"","edited":"","factchecked":"","code":"","no_old_story_flag":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/custom_visuals"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31755,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31750\/revisions\/31755"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/23079"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos-visuals\/31018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}