{"id":16943,"date":"2023-11-14T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:35:28","slug":"zaglossus-attenboroughi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zaglossus-attenboroughi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Zaglossus attenboroughi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Zaglossus attenboroughi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Known as\u00a0Attenborough\u2019s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) or Sir David\u2019s Long-beaked Echidna, the animal\u00a0belongs to a small, unique\u00a0group of egg-laying mammals\u00a0called monotremes, which\u00a0also includes the platypus.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0named in honour of naturalist\u00a0Sir David Attenborough.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0never been recorded outside the extremely remote\u00a0Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia&#8217;s\u00a0Papua region.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0smallest known\u00a0species of\u00a0long-beaked\u00a0echidna, weighing between 5 and 10 kilograms.<\/li>\n<li>They have\u00a0five claws on each foot, and\u00a0adult males have a small, non-venomous\u00a0spur on the inside of each ankle.\u00a0Adult females lack these spurs.<\/li>\n<li>The fur is distinctive, short, fine, and dense, unlike other echidnas, and raw umber brown in color.<\/li>\n<li>There is short fur that covers the few spines on the middle back of this species.<\/li>\n<li>Adults have no teeth, but the\u00a0tongue is covered in tooth-like spikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status:\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are Echidnas?\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>They are unique,\u00a0quilled creatures with\u00a0small eyes and a\u00a0long nose.<\/li>\n<li>Similar to hedgehogs, echidnas are spiny, nocturnal creatures that\u00a0roll into a ball when they sense danger.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0shy creatures that\u00a0live in burrows and\u00a0only meet others once a year\u00a0during mating season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is platypus?<\/h3>\n<p>The platypus is a duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature native to Australia. Along with echidnas, Platypuses are grouped in a separate order of mammals known as monotremes, which are distinguished from all other mammals because they lay eggs.Male of the species is also one of the world\u2019s few venomous mammals.<\/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\"><u>Elusive Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaglossus attenboroughi belongs to a small, unique group of egg-laying mammals called monotremes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16943","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\/16943","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=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}