{"id":13955,"date":"2023-08-12T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13955"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:12:32","slug":"indian-flying-fox-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-flying-fox-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Flying Fox bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian Flying Fox bat:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a species of flying fox <strong>native to the Indian subcontinent<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>largest bats in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The nectar and <strong>fruit-eating flying fox (Pteropus giganteus<\/strong>) is generally considered a <strong>vermin <\/strong>as they raid orchards.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>keystone species<\/strong> causing seed dispersals of many plants in tropical systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian flying fox is so called due to its unique, <strong>fox-like appearance<\/strong>: reddish-brown coat, characteristically long snout as well as large eyes. And indeed, this animal resembles a little fox with wings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> These bats are endemic to South Central Asia, found from Pakistan and China to the Maldive Islands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habits and Lifestyle<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>highly social creatures, forming large roosts<\/strong> of several hundred animals.<\/li>\n<li>These bats live in a &#8216;vertical&#8217;, male-dominated hierarchy system, where higher-ranked individuals occupy higher spots of the tree, while lower-ranked individuals remain on lower spots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:\u00a0<\/strong> They maintain a frugivorous diet, supplementing it with insects as well as flowers, containing juice and nectar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat: <\/strong>Being external roosters, the flying fox is exposed to predators and disturbances apart from environmental indicators such as heat and light.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong>Least concern<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972:<\/strong>Schedule II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the keystone species?<\/h3>\n<p>A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem relative to its abundance or biomass. The term &#8220;keystone species&#8221; was first introduced by the American ecologist Robert T. Paine in 1969 to describe certain species that play a critical role in maintaining the structure, diversity, and function of an ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Flying fox bats for vigilance while day-roosting, finds study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Flying Fox bat is a species of flying fox native to the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13955","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\/13955","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=13955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}