{"id":19632,"date":"2024-01-23T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19632"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:22:54","slug":"binturong-and-small-clawed-otter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/binturong-and-small-clawed-otter\/","title":{"rendered":"Binturong and Small clawed otter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Binturong<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0largest civet in India colloquially known as\u00a0the bearcat.<\/li>\n<li>Common names: Asian Bearcat and the Asian Civet.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific name:\u00a0Arctictis binturong<\/li>\n<li>It is a generally\u00a0solitary and nocturnal animal that spends the majority of its time moving about slowly and cautiously amongst the trees.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0scent glands which are located just under its tail. These glands are used to mark trees and foliage to outline an individual\u2019s territory.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the same family as other small carnivores including Civets, Genets, Mongooses, and Fossa.<\/li>\n<li>The binturong is one of only two carnivores that has a prehensile tail. (The other is the kinkajou).<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0prehensile tail acts almost like another leg helping both with climbing, and gripping onto branches to give the Binturong more stability.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: It is a medium sized\u00a0carnivore that is found inhabiting the\u00a0dense forests of South-East Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: China, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and on the island of Borneo.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Protection Act of 1972: Schedule I<\/li>\n<li>CITES: Appendix III<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Small-clawed otter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It exhibits partially webbed feet and short claws, enhancing their adeptness as hunters in aquatic environments.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\n<ul>\n<li>This mammal boasts a broad distribution range spanning from\u00a0India eastwards to Southeast Asia and southern China.<\/li>\n<li>In India, it predominantly inhabits protected areas in West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and certain regions of Kerala within the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: They are primarily found in freshwater habitats, sustaining themselves with a diet comprising fish and crustaceans.<\/li>\n<li>Threats:\u00a0Habitat destruction, deforestation, reduction in prey biomass etc.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Protection Act of 1972: Schedule I<\/li>\n<li>CITES: Appendix I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is civet?<\/h3>\n<p>A civet is a small, lean, mostly nocturnal mammal native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests. The term civet applies to over a dozen different species, mostly from the family Viverridae.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/science\/kazirangas-fauna-enhanced-as-two-new-mammalian-species-enlisted-bkg\/3371445\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaziranga\u2019s fauna enhanced as two new mammalian species enlisted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binturong and Small clawed otter are the two new mammalian species enlisted in  the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19632","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\/19632","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=19632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}