{"id":17936,"date":"2023-12-09T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17936"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:07:47","slug":"mesechinus-orientalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mesechinus-orientalis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mesechinus orientalis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mesechinus orientalis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0new species of Hedgehog.<\/li>\n<li>It is currently known from southern Anhui and northwestern Zhejiang, both in\u00a0eastern China.<\/li>\n<li>It is currently the southeasternmost\u00a0species of Mesechinus (Mesechinus is a small genus of mammals\u00a0in the hedgehog family).<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: It can be found in\u00a0scrubland and subtropical broad-leaf evergreen forests at elevations from\u00a030 to 700 m.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0small-bodied hedgehog.<\/li>\n<li>It has the\u00a0shortest spines in the genus (1.8-2 cm).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are\u00a0four color rings on the spine, from the base to the tip.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0nose is brown, with black whiskers on the snout; these whiskers shorten towards the nose.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0ears are small and nearly the\u00a0same length as the surrounding spines.<\/li>\n<li>It appears to be\u00a0sexually dimorphic. The pelage of males is generally gray, while that of most of the females is reddish brown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Hedgehog<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedgehogs are a distinctive group of\u00a0spiney insectivorous mammals comprising the subfamily Erinaceinae of the Erinaceidae family.<\/li>\n<li>They are found\u00a0across\u00a0Eurasia and Africa but absent from Australia and the Americas.<\/li>\n<li>Their most\u00a0notable features are their\u00a0spines,\u00a0which are enlarged hollow hairs, and\u00a0ability to roll into a ball\u00a0when frightened, presenting only these spines to the outside world.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are evergreen forests?<\/h3>\n<p>Evergreen forests are forests in which there is no complete, seasonal loss of leaves (i.e., trees shed old leaves and produce new ones throughout the year, rather than during particular periods). The trees may be conifers or hardwoods. The distribution of these forests ranges through boreal, middle, and tropical latitudes. The northern coniferous forests and the equatorial rain forests (see tropical rain forests) are the most extensive evergreen forests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/biology\/mesechinus-orientalis-12509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New Species of Forest Hedgehog Discovered in China<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesechinus orientalis is a new species of Hedgehog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17936","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\/17936","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=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}