{"id":10142,"date":"2023-04-26T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:07:10","slug":"what-is-mexican-giant-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-mexican-giant-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mexican Giant Turtle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mexican Giant Turtle:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mexican Giant Turtle, also called the <strong>Red Eared Slider<\/strong>, is the <strong>most destructive among the seven turtle species<\/strong> found in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered as <strong>one of the world\u2019s 100 worst invasive non-native species<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: <\/strong><i><strong>Trachemys scripta elegans<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: They are <strong>native to the south-eastern USA and Mexico<\/strong> but have found their way across the globe, including India, through the trade of exotic animals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It occurs in a wide variety of <strong>aquatic habitats,<\/strong> but it <strong>prefers a mud bottom, plenty of aquatic plants<\/strong>, and abundant basking sites.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>lives in both natural waters<\/strong> (including rivers, sloughs, and oxbow lakes) <strong>and human-made waters<\/strong> (such as ditches, ponds, and reservoirs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is known for its <strong>bright red circular or oblong spots near its ears.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The carapace <strong>(upper shell) is olive-brown <\/strong>with numerous black and yellow lines.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>exposed skin is dark green <\/strong>with <strong>narrow black and yellow lines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>primarily aquatic <\/strong>and will emerge from the water for basking on rocks and logs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Average Life Span: 20 to 30 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Invasive species?<\/h3>\n<p>An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/india\/red-eared-slider-turtle-native-to-south-america-discovered-in-bengal-raises-environmental-concerns-7639897.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Red-Eared Slider Turtle Native to South America Discovered in Bengal, Raises Environmental Concerns<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Giant Turtle, also called the Red Eared Slider, is the most destructive among the seven turtle species found in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}