{"id":20559,"date":"2024-02-16T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:38:12","slug":"golden-backed-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/golden-backed-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden-backed Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Golden-backed Frog<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is endemic to the\u00a0Western Ghats of Karnataka and Kerala, specifically above the Palghat Gap, where it is known to thrive in relative abundance.<\/li>\n<li>It is about the size of a human thumb.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: The Golden backed frog is predominantly found in\u00a0evergreen and semi-evergreen forests\u00a0in the Western Ghats of India.<\/li>\n<li>These frogs prefer to reside near streams, ponds, and other water bodies, where they can lay their eggs and find their food.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0primarily insectivorous and feed on a range of small insects and arthropods such as ants, beetles, and crickets.<\/li>\n<li>Threats: The major threats to the survival of these frogs are habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution of water bodies, and the introduction of non-native species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Bonnet mushroom?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is commonly\u00a0found as a saprotroph (an organism that feeds on non-living organic matter) on rotting wood.<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the Mycena genus.<\/li>\n<li>Mycenas are hard to identify to species and some are distinguishable only by microscopic features such as the shape of the cystidia.<\/li>\n<li>Some species are edible, while others contain toxins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is mutualism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an association between organisms of two different species in which each benefits. Mutualistic arrangements are most likely to develop between organisms with widely different living requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/mushroom-growing-on-frog-india-9161001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mushroom growing on a frog in India baffles scientists<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden-backed Frog is endemic to the Western Ghats of Karnataka and Kerala, specifically above the Palghat Gap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20559","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\/20559","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=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}