{"id":20820,"date":"2024-02-23T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:24:36","slug":"cantors-giant-softshell-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cantors-giant-softshell-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantor&#8217;s Giant Softshell Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Cantor&#8217;s Giant Softshell Turtle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the Asian giant softshell turtle and the\u00a0frog-faced softshell turtle.<\/li>\n<li>It is a species known for its rarity and secretive nature.<\/li>\n<li>It spends\u00a0most of its life buried and motionless, with only their eyes and mouth protruding from the sand.<\/li>\n<li>It surfaces only twice a day to take a breath and capture their prey by sit-and-wait strategy using an element of surprise.<\/li>\n<li>These turtles are\u00a0primarily carnivores (piscivores) feeding on fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It is found in\u00a0eastern and southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, eastern and southern China.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0They inhabit inland, slow-moving, freshwater rivers, lakes, streams, and estuaries.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Critically endangered<\/li>\n<li>CITES:\u00a0Appendix II<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Protection Act,1972 :\u00a0Schedule I\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Threats: Habitat destruction has made it disappear from much of its environment. They are also heavily harvested by locals for meat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is CITES?<\/h3>\n<p>The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is an international agreement between governments. It aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-02-incredibly-rare-giant-softshell-turtle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>First-ever nesting report of incredibly rare giant softshell turtle<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cantor&#8217;s Giant Softshell Turtle spends most of its life buried and motionless, with only their eyes and mouth protruding from the sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20820","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\/20820","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=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}