{"id":18058,"date":"2023-12-12T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18058"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:54:09","slug":"indian-mouse-deer-chousingha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-mouse-deer-chousingha\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Mouse Deer and Chousingha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key Facts about Indian Mouse Deer<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Mouse Deer or\u00a0Spotted Chevrotain is the\u00a0smallest deer in India and is highly\u00a0nocturnal.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name:\u00a0<i>Moschiola indica<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0endemic to the Indian Subcontinent.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly found in\u00a0peninsular India, with\u00a0some old records from Nepal.<\/li>\n<li>Sri Lanka has a separate species called the spotted chevrotain (Moschiola meminna).<\/li>\n<li>Within India, it is commonly encountered in a number of\u00a0forest areas along the Western Ghats, in the\u00a0Eastern Ghats up to Orissa,\u00a0and in the forests of central India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is small, 25-30 cm at shoulder height, and weighs from two to four kg.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0fur color of the Indian spotted chevrotain\u00a0is dark brown with white underparts.<\/li>\n<li>There are four or five light\u00a0rows of white spots on the back.\u00a0Males of this species\u00a0have tusk-like upper canines.<\/li>\n<li>A unique feature of this group is that instead of a four-chambered stomach like in other ruminants, they have a three-chambered stomach.<\/li>\n<li>It forages on the forest floor for\u00a0fruits, roots, leaves, and herbs.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0occasionally been observed eating insects,\u00a0crustaceans, and even small mammals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status:\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Chousingha<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The four-horned antelope, or chousingha, is a\u00a0small antelope\u00a0found in India and Nepal.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name:\u00a0<i>Tetracerus quadricornis<\/i>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0endemic to the Indian subcontinent.<\/li>\n<li>They are found\u00a0in woodland areas throughout India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>They are the\u00a0smallest antelopes found in Asia.<\/li>\n<li>As the name suggests, Chousingha can be\u00a0identified by the four horns, as against other bovids, which have two horns.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0usually diurnal and solitary by nature; however they can be spotted in loose groups of three to four.<\/li>\n<li>Animals are\u00a0sedentary,\u00a0inhabiting more-or-less the same region throughout their lives.<\/li>\n<li>They have a\u00a0yellowish-brown to reddish coat and are slender, with small legs and a\u00a0short tail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status:\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN Red List: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are crustaceans?<\/h3>\n<p>Crustaceans are invertebrates with a hard exoskeleton (carapace), a segmented body that is bilaterally symmetrical, more than four pairs of jointed appendages (&#8220;legs&#8221;) and an open circulatory system (the &#8220;blood&#8221; does not flow in a closed loop). Crustaceans make up a very large group of the Arthropods which include the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill etc. Crustaceans are found in a wide range of habitats &#8211; most are free-living freshwater or marine animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice), some are parasitic (e.g. fish lice) and some do not move (e.g. barnacles).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/visakhapatnam-zoo-gets-new-species-from-warangal-zoo-as-part-of-animal-exchange-programme\/article67624340.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Visakhapatnam zoo gets new species from Warangal zoo as part of animal exchange programme<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Mouse Deer or Spotted Chevrotain is the smallest deer in India and is highly nocturnal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18058","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\/18058","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=18058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}