{"id":18683,"date":"2023-12-28T07:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:56:46","slug":"wangs-garden-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wangs-garden-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wang\u2019s Garden Lizard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Wang\u2019s Garden Lizard<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new\u00a0species of iguana.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name:\u00a0<i>Calotes wangi<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It is found\u00a0in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests and\u00a0tropical monsoon forests in southern China and northern Vietnam, mostly in mountainous areas, hills and plains on forest edges, arable land, shrub lands, and even urban green belts.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0not threatened\u00a0at present. However, in some areas, their habitat was being fragmented.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is less than 9 cm long, and one of its distinguishing features is its\u00a0orange tongue.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0active at the edge of the forest, and when it is in danger, it rushes into bushes or climbs tree trunks to hide.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0lies on sloping shrub branches\u00a0at night, sleeping close to the branches.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0eats a variety of insects, spiders, and other arthropods.<\/li>\n<li>It is active from April to October every year, while in the tropics it is active from March to November or even longer.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, their\u00a0bodies are used medicinally and the lizards are\u00a0also eaten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are iguanas?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Iguanas are\u00a0stout lizards mainly\u00a0living in the tropical parts of the western world.<\/li>\n<li>They are identified from their\u00a0bulky appearance,\u00a0scaly skin covered in warts, spines on their back, and a\u00a0flap of flesh under their necks.<\/li>\n<li>They have shown\u00a0various color morphs, the common ones being green, blue, and grey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are arthropods?<\/h3>\n<p>Arthropods are invertebrates with jointed legs. They make up about 75% of all animals on Earth and have a major role in maintaining ecosystems as pollinators, recyclers of nutrients, scavengers and food for other animals. They include many animals we come across, such as spiders, ants, centipedes and slaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/biology\/calotes-wangi-12570.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists Discover New Species of Lizard in Asia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang\u2019s Garden Lizard is a new species of iguana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18683","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\/18683","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=18683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}