{"id":13563,"date":"2023-07-30T01:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:54:17","slug":"blue-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/blue-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Blue whale:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blue whales are the <strong>largest animals ever to live <\/strong>on our planet.<\/li>\n<li>Whales are at <strong>the top of the food chain<\/strong> and have an important role in the overall health of the marine environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> They are found <strong>in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They generally migrate seasonally between summer feeding grounds and winter breeding grounds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifespan:<\/strong> The average lifespan is estimated at around 80 to 90 years. Scientists can estimate the age of whales by <strong>counting the layers of wax-like earplugs<\/strong> collected from deceased animals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behaviour and Diet<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They sometimes swim in small groups but are <strong>more often found alone or in pairs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They generally spend summers feeding in polar waters and undertake lengthy migrations towards the equatorial waters as winter arrives.<\/li>\n<li>The primary diet whale is krill\u2014tiny shrimp-like animals, but fish and copepods (tiny crustaceans) may occasionally be part of the blue whale\u2019s diet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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 are charactertistics of Mammals?<\/h3>\n<p>All mammals have mammary glands, which are specialized organs that produce milk to nourish their young. The word &#8220;mammal&#8221; is derived from &#8220;mamma,&#8221; meaning breast or teat.Mammals typically have hair or fur covering their bodies, although some species may have very little or no hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/andhra-pradesh-carcass-of-blue-whale-washes-ashore-at-meghavaram-beach-in-srikakulam-district\/article67130968.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Andhra Pradesh: Carcass of blue whale washes ashore at Meghavaram beach in Srikakulam district<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue whales are the largest animals ever to live on our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13563","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\/13563","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=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}