{"id":15516,"date":"2023-10-05T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15516"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:50:10","slug":"haploclastus-nilgirinus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/haploclastus-nilgirinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Haploclastus Nilgirinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>About Haploclastus Nilgirinus:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an elusive\u00a0<strong>Nilgiri large burrowing spider<\/strong> and a venomous species of tarantula.<\/li>\n<li>It is endemic to the Nilgiris hills of\u00a0<strong>Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It shows sexual dimorphism, the males are much smaller than the females.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> It is threatened by the illegal trade in wildlife as well as by climate change,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is a Tarantula?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tarantulas are\u00a0<strong>a type of large, hairy spider<\/strong> belonging to the family Theraphosidae.<\/li>\n<li>There are over 900 species of tarantulas found all over the world, except for Antarctica.<\/li>\n<li>They move slowly on their eight hairy legs, but they are accomplished nocturnal predators.<\/li>\n<li>Adult tarantulas average five inches (13 centimeters) long. When spread out, their leg span is up to 11 inches (28 centimeters).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Nilgiri Hills<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These hills are part of the\u00a0<strong>Western Ghat mountain<\/strong> range and run across the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>The peaks of the Nilgiri rise abruptly from the surrounding plains to an elevation of about 6,000\u20138,000 feet one of them,\u00a0<strong>Doda Betta (<\/strong>8,652 feet ) is the highest point in Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The hills are separated from the\u00a0<strong>Karnataka Plateau (<\/strong>north) by\u00a0<strong>the Noyar River<\/strong> and from the Annamalai and Palni hills (south) by the Palghat Gap.<\/li>\n<li>They are considerably cooler and wetter than the surrounding plains, the upper hills forming undulating grassy downs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the significance of Palghat Gap?<\/h3>\n<p>The Palghat Gap, also known as the Palakkad Gap or Palghat Pass, is a low-lying natural mountain pass in the Western Ghats of India. It serves as a crucial geographic corridor that connects the southern part of the Indian state of Kerala with the Coimbatore district of the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/the-nilgiris-endemic-tarantula-could-be-under-threat-from-habitat-loss-and-climate-change-say-researchers\/article67379269.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tarantula endemic to the Nilgiris could be under threat from habitat loss, climate change: Researchers<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haploclastus nilgirinus  is an elusive Nilgiri large burrowing spider and a venomous species of tarantula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15516","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\/15516","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=15516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}