{"id":16931,"date":"2023-11-11T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:06:39","slug":"attenboroughs-long-beaked-echidna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/attenboroughs-long-beaked-echidna\/","title":{"rendered":"Attenborough&#8217;s long-beaked echidna"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Attenborough&#8217;s long-beaked echidna<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as Sir David&#8217;s long-beaked echidna or the\u00a0Cyclops long-beaked echidna.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of three species from\u00a0the genus Zaglossus that inhabits the island of New Guinea.<\/li>\n<li>It is named in honour of naturalist Sir David Attenborough.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: It lives in the Cyclops Mountains, which are near the cities of Sentani and Jayapura in the\u00a0Indonesian province of Papua.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0smallest echidna species.<\/li>\n<li>Echidnas are\u00a0nocturnal and shy, making them difficult to find at the best of times.<\/li>\n<li>It appears so unlike other mammals because\u00a0it is a member of the monotremes &#8212; an\u00a0egg-laying group that separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life about 200 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN Red List:\u00a0Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li>CITES :\u00a0Appendix II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is echidna?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a type of monotreme, which is a group of egg-laying mammals. There are four species of echidnas, and they are native to Australia and New Guinea. They are also known as spiny anteaters. The four species are the short-beaked echidna (found in Australia and New Guinea) and three species of long-beaked echidnas (found in New Guinea).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/elusive-attenborough-echidna-rediscovered-in-indonesia\/article67520849.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elusive Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attenborough&#8217;s long-beaked echidna is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus that inhabits the island of New Guinea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16931","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\/16931","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=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}