{"id":15237,"date":"2023-09-24T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:59:16","slug":"bolson-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bolson-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolson tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bolson tortoises:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>largest and rarest land reptile<\/strong>, as well as the rarest of the six Gopherus species native to the\u00a0<strong>North American Continent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Adult males are generally smaller than females in this species.<\/li>\n<li>The tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile that\u00a0<strong>spends more than 95% of its time in a burrow<\/strong> that it constructs with its shovel-like front feet.<\/li>\n<li>All foraging, nesting and mating activities take place during the tortoise active season from roughly April to October<\/li>\n<li>The average lifespan of a Bolson tortoise is not known, but probably lies upward of a century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This species at present is restricted to a relatively small area of the grasslands of\u00a0<strong>north-central Mexico<\/strong> in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango where it exists in disjunct sub-populations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:\u00a0<\/strong>Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Reptiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Reptiles are a diverse group of cold-blooded vertebrate animals belonging to the class Reptilia. They are characterized by several key features that distinguish them from other animal groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/biologists-in-slow-and-steady-race-to-help-north-americas-largest-and-rarest-tortoise-species\/article67337659.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Biologists in slow and steady race to help North America&#8217;s largest and rarest tortoise species.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolson tortoise is the largest and rarest land reptile, as well as the rarest of the six Gopherus species native to the North American Continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15237","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\/15237","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=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}