{"id":15967,"date":"2023-10-17T08:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:58:03","slug":"mountain-chicken-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mountain-chicken-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain chicken frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mountain chicken frog:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The mountain chicken frog (<strong>Leptodactylus fallax)<\/strong> is\u00a0<strong>one of the largest frogs in the world<\/strong> and can weigh over 40 times as much as a European common frog, reaching up to 1kg in size.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>endemic to seven Caribbean islands<\/strong>, including Montserrat and Dominica<\/li>\n<li>The predator eats a variety of animals, including insects, snakes, small mammals, and even other frogs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Officially named the\u00a0<strong>Giant Ditch frog,<\/strong> the species is commonly known as the mountain chicken.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> Its reddish brown and cream colour provides effective camouflage against the leaf litter of the forest floor.<\/li>\n<li>Its large, drumstick legs hold enough power to jump high enough to clear a standing adult human<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> Combinations of habitat destruction, invasive species and hunting have contributed to its decline.<\/li>\n<li>It was majorly affected by the introduction of the\u00a0<strong>deadly fungal disease, Chytridiomycosis.<\/strong><\/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<h2>What is Chytridiomycosis?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>an infectious disease<\/strong> that affects amphibians, especially frogs worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by either of two species of amphibian\u00a0<strong>chytrid fungus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is an emerging disease that is significantly impacting amphibian populations across the globe.<\/li>\n<li>The disease has caused the decline or complete extinction of over 200 species of frogs and other amphibians.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Amphibians?<\/h3>\n<p>Amphibians are a class of vertebrate animals known for their unique life cycle, which typically involves an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/dominicas-mountain-chicken-frog-vanishes-from-island-in-fastest-extinction-ever-recorded\/articleshow\/104447566.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Dominica\u2019s mountain chicken frog vanishes from island in \u2018fastest extinction ever recorded\u2019<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain chicken frogs are one of the largest frogs in the world and can weigh over 40 times as much as a European common frog, reaching up to 1kg in size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15967","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\/15967","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=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}