{"id":13321,"date":"2023-07-22T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13321"},"modified":"2025-04-02T03:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:55:47","slug":"whites-seahorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/whites-seahorse\/","title":{"rendered":"White\u2019s Seahorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About White\u2019s Seahorse:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is commonly seen holding onto the <strong>nets of swimming enclosures.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The species was named after John White, Surgeon General to the First Fleet.<\/li>\n<li>Seahorses are often considered a <strong>flagship species<\/strong> for conservation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Male seahorses<\/strong> can be recognised by the presence of a <strong>pouch below the abdomen<\/strong> which is absent in females.<\/li>\n<li>It is usually very well <strong>camouflaged in various shades<\/strong> of brown, grey and black.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These are <strong>endemic to Australia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It occurs in depths down to about 25 m in temperate marine waters along the south-eastern and south-western coasts of Australia. It is common in Sydney Harbour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breeding behaviours<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The reproduction of seahorses is truly remarkable.<\/li>\n<li>The male seahorse has a pouch (a marsupium) into which the female seahorse lays her eggs.<\/li>\n<li>In White&#8217;s Seahorse, the <strong>male fertilises the eggs<\/strong> and cares for them for about three weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat:<\/strong> The primary cause for the decline in abundance of White\u2019s Seahorse is the <strong>loss of natural habitats<\/strong> across their range in eastern Australia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: <\/strong>Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the flagship species?<\/h3>\n<p>The concept of flagship species is widely used in conservation biology and environmental advocacy to raise awareness about broader conservation issues, habitat protection, and the importance of biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/australias-seahorse-hotels-aim-to-save-endangered-species\/article67105077.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Australia&#8217;s &#8216;seahorse hotels&#8217; aim to save endangered species<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White\u2019s Seahorse is commonly seen holding onto the nets of swimming enclosures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13321","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\/13321","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=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}