{"id":18973,"date":"2024-01-05T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18973"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:56:58","slug":"northeast-african-cheetah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/northeast-african-cheetah\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast African Cheetah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Northeast African Cheetah<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is found in the\u00a0Horn of Africa.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the\u00a0Sudan cheetah. This subspecies is more closely related to\u00a0the Southern African cheetah than to Saharan cheetah populations.<\/li>\n<li>The cheetah\u2019s long tail helps it keep its balance when changing direction mid-chase. Cheetahs can make even 90-degree turns with ease while sprinting.<\/li>\n<li>Appearance: Like it\u2019s relative to the south in East Africa, the Northeast African cheetah is fairly large. Physically, it most resembles the East African cheetah<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: Contemporary records are known in\u00a0South Sudan and Ethiopia. These animals live in wide open\u00a0lands, grasslands, semi-arid areas, and other open habitats where prey is abundant such as in the East Sudanian Savanna.<\/li>\n<li>Threat: The subspecies\u2019 cubs are being\u00a0heavily trafficked across the\u00a0Red Sea to Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Savanna?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy (i.e., scattered trees) above a continuous tall grass understory (the vegetation layer between the forest canopy and the ground). The largest areas of savanna are found in Africa, South America, Australia and India etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/world\/upgrade-horn-of-africa-cheetah-status-to-endangered-experts-appeal-to-iucn-93711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Upgrade Horn of Africa cheetah status to \u2018endangered\u2019, experts appeal to IUCN<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast African Cheetah is also known as the Sudan cheetah. This subspecies is more closely related to the Southern African cheetah than to Saharan cheetah populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18973","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\/18973","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=18973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}