{"id":14104,"date":"2023-08-18T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T01:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14104"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:27:38","slug":"tachymenoides-harrisonfordi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tachymenoides-harrisonfordi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tachymenoides harrisonfordi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tachymenoides harrisonfordi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered in May 2022 by a team of researchers from the United States, Germany and Peru.<\/li>\n<li>It was discovered in <strong>the Peruvian Andes mountain region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It measures 16 inches (40.6 centimeters) in length and is yellowish-brown with scattered black blotches, a black belly and a vertical streak over its copper-colored eye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This is <strong>the third animal species<\/strong> to be named after Ford. Earlier, an ant (<strong>Pheidole harrisonfordi) and a spider (Calponia harrisonfordi)<\/strong> were named after him.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about Andes mountain region<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also called the Andes, Spanish Cordillera de los Andes or Los Andes, mountain system of <strong>South America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mountain <strong>range spans seven countries<\/strong> \u2014 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>It consist of a vast series of <strong>extremely high plateaus<\/strong> surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 8,900 kilometres<\/li>\n<li>The highest peak of this range is <strong>Mount Aconcagua<\/strong> (6,959 metres) on the border of <strong>Argentina and Chile.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>northern part of<\/strong> the Andes is typically <strong>rainy and warm,<\/strong> and the weather is also wet in the eastern part of central Andes, and the area to the southwest.<\/li>\n<li>To the west, the dry climate is dominated by the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.<\/li>\n<li>The mountains form <strong>a rain cover over the eastern plains of Argentina<\/strong>, which have extremely dry weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Fold mountain?<\/h3>\n<p>Fold mountains are a type of mountain range that forms as a result of the Earth&#8217;s crust being subjected to intense pressure, causing rocks to bend, buckle, and fold. These mountains are typically characterized by long ridges and valleys, with the rocks on the surface displaying a series of folds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/harrison-ford-snake-named-8896991\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why a new snake species has been named after Harrison Ford<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tachymenoides harrisonfordi  was discovered in May 2022 by a team of researchers from the United States, Germany and Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14104","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\/14104","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=14104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}