{"id":17400,"date":"2023-11-25T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17400"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:35:10","slug":"sangai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sangai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sangai<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is subspecies of Eld&#8217;s deer\u00a0endemic to Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It also has immense\u00a0cultural relevance to Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It is found\u00a0only in Keibul Lamjao National Park \u2013 the largest single mass of phumdi is in the Loktak Lake \u2013 in Manipur\u2019s Bishnupur district.<\/li>\n<li>Appearance\n<ul>\n<li>It is a medium-sized deer,\u00a0with uniquely distinctive antlers, with extremely long brow tine, which form the main beam.<\/li>\n<li>The forward protruding beam appears to come out from the eyebrow, hence called the brow-antlered deer.<\/li>\n<li>It has a dark reddish-brown winter coat, which turns paler in summer.<\/li>\n<li>The deer walks on the hind surface of its pasterns with mincing hops over floating foliage, and is hence also\u00a0called the Dancing Deer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN:\u00a0Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li>The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972:\u00a0Schedule-1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Loktak Lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a freshwater lake in\u00a0the state of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It is famous for unique floating islands called\u00a0Phumdis with multiple plant species.<\/li>\n<li>The Keibul Lamjao National Park located on the Loktak Lake is the last natural habitat of the \u201cSangai\u201d the dancing deer of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It is regarded as among the most beautiful and\u00a0ecologically diverse lakes in the Northeast.<\/li>\n<li>The lake is designated as a wetland of international importance\u00a0under the Ramsar Convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is special about the\u00a0Keibul Lamjao National Park?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the world\u2019s only floating national park. It is located in the Bishnupur district in Manipur.The park is located in the southwestern part of the famous Loktak Lake, which is well known for the floating biomass called phumdis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/lake-project-threat-to-sangai-manipur-to-centre-9040042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lake project threat to Sangai: Manipur to the Centre<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sangai is subspecies of Eld&#8217;s deer endemic to Manipur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17400","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\/17400","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=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}