{"id":11202,"date":"2023-05-23T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:40:57","slug":"kambalakonda-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kambalakonda-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About New Species:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Visakhapatnam limbless skink (Barkudiamelanosticta) a <strong>small reptile<\/strong> renowned for its <strong>unique limbless body<\/strong> and extraordinary adaptations, has long eluded scientific observations.<\/li>\n<li>It is believed to be <strong>endemic to this region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary is a vast forest reserve located near <strong>Vishaka- patnam, Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The name of the place referred to <strong>the local hill, Kambalakonda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary has been <strong>under the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department<\/strong> since 1970.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Topography:<\/strong> It is considerably <strong>hilly with steep slopes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The forest cover in the sanctuary is mostly considered as a <strong>dry evergreen forest mixed with scrub and meadows<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>One of the most stunning flowers found in the region includes the <strong>Indian screw tree.<\/strong> Other flowers and fruits like flowers of the <strong>Bush plum tree<\/strong>, <strong>Jungle berry bunches<\/strong> can be found all across the landscape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Quite a few animals are extremely rare, these animals include the Indian leopard, <strong>Indian pangolin, Madras treeshrew<\/strong>, Barking Deer, Jackal etc.<\/li>\n<li>Russel\u2019s viper or Daboia russelii (Rare breed of snake).<\/li>\n<li>Some uncommon birds include the <strong>Indian Golden oriole, Indian peafowl, Banded bay cuckoo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Can a human survive a saw scaled viper bite?<\/h3>\n<p>To put things into perspective, the saw-scaled viper has a maximum yield of 70 mg of venom in a single bite, and the average person only needs 5 mg to be fatally wounded. Given the fact that this snake bites with a minimum of 10 mg, even the weakest and least potent bite is enough to kill at least two people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/barkudia-limbless-skink-sighted-at-kambalakonda-wildlife-sanctuary-in-visakhapatnam\/article66882242.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Barkudia limbless skink sighted at Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary in Visakhapatnam<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary is a vast forest reserve located near Vishaka- patnam, Andhra Pradesh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11202","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\/11202","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=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}