{"id":12499,"date":"2023-06-26T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12499"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:06:55","slug":"what-is-hasarius-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-hasarius-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Hasarius Mumbai?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hasarius Mumbai<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>newly discovered species of jumping spider.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are spiders who, <strong>instead of trapping their prey in a web<\/strong>, <strong>stalk and hunt them by pouncing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>multiple eyes that give a 360-degree view<\/strong> of its surroundings and <strong>a bulbous body covered in hair.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>word \u2018Hasarius\u2019 refers to a genus that ranks the species<\/strong> <strong>\u2014 of \u2018jumping spiders\u2019<\/strong> in the \u2018salticidae\u2019 family.<\/li>\n<li>This <strong>genus, first discovered in the year 1826<\/strong>, <strong>occurs primarily in warm climates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In India<\/strong>, there are <strong>only two other Hasarius species<\/strong> which <strong>have been documented<\/strong>, <strong>namely H. adansoni, <\/strong>which is <strong>found across the<\/strong> <strong>country,<\/strong> including in urban areas, and <strong>H. kjellerupi, <\/strong>which was <strong>documented from the Nicobar Islands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Non-Governmental Organisation<\/strong> in India <strong>engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BNHS has been <strong>designated as a &#8216;Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation&#8217;<\/strong> <strong>by<\/strong> the <strong>Department of Science and Technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BNHS is the <strong>partner of BirdLife International in India<\/strong>. BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. It is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters<\/strong>: BNHS is headquartered in the specially constructed <strong>&#8216;Hornbill House&#8217; in southern Mumbai.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The BNHS <strong>logo is the great hornbill.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0\u00a0What is the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is a Non-Governmental Organisation in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. BNHS has been designated as a &#8216;Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation&#8217; by the Department of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/mumbai-news\/new-species-of-jumping-spider-found-in-goregaon-researchers-name-it-after-city-101687720819408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of \u2018jumping spider\u2019 found in Goregaon; researchers name it after city<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasarius mumbai is a newly discovered species of jumping spider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12499","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\/12499","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=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}