{"id":20213,"date":"2024-02-07T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:38:28","slug":"griffon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/griffon\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan griffon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Himalayan griffon:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an Old World vulture in the family <strong>Accipitridae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the two largest Old World vultures and true raptors.<\/li>\n<li>These are <strong>monogamous <\/strong>and pairs return to the same nesting and roosting sites from year to year.<\/li>\n<li>These are diurnal and mostly solitary species.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is found along the <strong>Himalayas<\/strong> and the adjoining <strong>Tibetan region<\/strong>and is also found in the Central Asian mountains.<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally it migrates to northern India but migration usually only occurs altitudinally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Near Threatened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Wayanad Wildlife sanctuary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Kerala<\/strong> and is an integral part of the <strong>Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is contiguous to the tiger reserves of Nagarhole and Bandipur of Karnataka and Madhumalai of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kabini river<\/strong> which is a tributary of the Kaveri River <strong>flows through the sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> It includes moist deciduous forests and West coast semi-evergreen forests<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It consists of plantations of teak, eucalyptus and Grewelia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Elephant, Gaur, Tiger, Panther, Sambar, Spotted deer, Barking deer, Wild boar, Sloth bear, Nilgiri langur etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What type of vegetation is there in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve?<\/h3>\n<p>It harbours a wide spectrum of ecosystem types such as tropical evergreen forests, Montane sholas and grasslands, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and thorn forests. The major part of the core areas spread over Kerala and Tamil Nadu States.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/wayanad-wildlife-sanctuary-offers-a-safe-haven-for-vultures\/article67808122.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary offers a safe haven for vultures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan griffon is one of the two largest Old World vultures and true raptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20213","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\/20213","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=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}