{"id":19985,"date":"2024-02-01T01:42:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19985"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:45:57","slug":"sphaerotheca-varshaabhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sphaerotheca-varshaabhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphaerotheca varshaabhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sphaerotheca varshaabhu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new\u00a0frog species.<\/li>\n<li>Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu, meaning a genus of frog\u00a0which welcomes rain, has been attributed to its behaviour of coming out of burrows during the early showers.<\/li>\n<li>The newly unearthed amphibian exhibits distinctive characteristics that set it apart from known frog species.<\/li>\n<li>It has adapted to its urban surroundings displaying behaviours and physical attributes that help it\u00a0navigate challenges posed by urbanization.<\/li>\n<li>The team utilised advanced\u00a0genetic analysis, morphological studies and bioacoustics to confirm the distinctiveness of this newly discovered amphibian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about amphibians<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are\u00a0extremely sensitive to changes\u00a0in the environment and can give scientists valuable insight into how an ecosystem is functioning.<\/li>\n<li>Amphibians, like frogs, toads and salamanders, are known as\u00a0indicator species.<\/li>\n<li>They are both predators and prey; many other animals are affected by them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an indicator species?<\/h3>\n<p>They are a species, or group of species, that reflect the biotic or abiotic state of an environment; reveal evidence for, or the impacts of, environmental change; or indicate the diversity of other species, taxa, or entire communities within an area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/researchers-identify-new-species-of-burrowing-frog-in-urban-bengaluru\/article67795686.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Researchers identify new species of burrowing frog in urban Bengaluru<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sphaerotheca varshaabhu  is a new frog species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19985","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\/19985","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=19985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}