{"id":15764,"date":"2023-10-11T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:10:26","slug":"dancing-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dancing-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dancing frogs:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are <strong>endemic to the Western Ghats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> The species was found to prefer habitats in areas with thick canopy cover of at least 70-80 per cent<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the <strong>Micrixalus genus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also the fifth most threatened genus in the world with 92 per cent of its species in the threatened category<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behaviour<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The dancing frogs that are found near the streams do a unique display to mate.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>males stretch up their hind legs<\/strong> one at a time and wave their webbed toes in the air in a rapid motion akin to a dance.<\/li>\n<li>This is to <strong>attract mates as well as ward off competition<\/strong>, probably preferred because their mating calls are drowned out by the gurgling of the streams.<\/li>\n<li>This act is called \u201c<strong>foot flagging\u201d<\/strong> and gives the species their name.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological significance:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Frogs are valuable in the food chain and also provide other ecological services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats: <\/strong>These species are threatened by <strong>invasive species<\/strong> like the mosquito fish, land use change, variation in <strong>temperature and humidity<\/strong>, extreme <strong>weather events<\/strong> such as floods and excess rainfall, <strong>infectious diseases<\/strong>, water pollution, light pollution, and infrastructure projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Amphibians?<\/h3>\n<p>Amphibians are a diverse and fascinating group of vertebrate animals that are known for their unique life cycle, which involves transitioning between aquatic and terrestrial environments during different stages of their lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/dancing-frogs-of-western-ghats-among-most-threatened-amphibians-globally-92226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dancing frogs of Western Ghats among most threatened amphibians globally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing frogs are endemic to the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15764","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\/15764","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=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}