{"id":23515,"date":"2024-05-19T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23515"},"modified":"2025-04-07T03:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:33:37","slug":"facts-about-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/facts-about-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Palamner &#8211; Kuppam forest ranges<\/strong> of Chittoor district of <strong>Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the only sanctuary in the whole state housing <strong>Asian elephants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This Sanctuary comes under Project elephant &#8211; a Country wide Elephant Conservation Project taken up by Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers:<\/strong> Kaigal and River Kaundinya flow through this sanctuary and is characterized by high hills, deep valleys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> Southern tropical dry deciduous forest, with patches of thorn, scrub and grassy plains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> Plants like Albizzia amara, Ficus glomerata, Zizyphus xylocarpus, Gymnosporia Montana, etc;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna: <\/strong>Elephant, Panther, Sloth bear, Wild boar, Chowsingha, Nilgai, Hyena, Jackal, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about Sri Lankan golden-backed frog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>Gravenhorst&#8217;s frog<\/strong> or Sri Lanka wood frog, belongs to the family Ranidae.<\/li>\n<li>It was considered endemic to Sri Lanka, commonly found from <strong>sea level to 1250 meters<\/strong> in various districts including Anuradhapura, Galle, and Kandy.<\/li>\n<li>The separation of India and Sri Lanka dates back to the <strong>early Miocene era<\/strong>, around 15 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout the <strong>Pleistocene<\/strong>, fluctuating sea levels periodically exposed and submerged the land bridge across the Palk Strait, facilitating biotic exchanges.<\/li>\n<li>Hylarana gracilis, typically associated with freshwater habitats, shows a shallow genetic divergence (0.2% to 1.1%) between populations in the Eastern Ghats and Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What are Deciduous Forests?<\/h3>\n<p>A deciduous forest is a biome dominated by deciduous trees which lose their leaves seasonally. The Earth has temperate deciduous forests, and tropical and subtropical deciduous forests, also known as dry forests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/sri-lankan-golden-backed-frog-rediscovered-after-200-years-in-indias-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary\/article68190161.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Sri Lankan golden-backed frog rediscovered after 200 years in India at Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary  is located in Palamner &#8211; Kuppam forest ranges of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23515","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\/23515","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=23515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}