{"id":23763,"date":"2024-05-29T02:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:00:16","slug":"himalayan-serow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/himalayan-serow\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan serow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Himalayan serow:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It resembles a cross between a goat, a donkey, a cow, and a pig.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>There are <strong>several species<\/strong> of serows, and <strong>all of them are found in Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Himalayan serow, or Capricornis sumatraensis thar, is restricted to the Himalayan region. Taxonomically, it is a subspecies of the mainland serow (Capricornis sumatraensis).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> These are <strong>herbivore species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> These are typically found at <strong>altitudes<\/strong> between <strong>2,000 metres and 4,000 metres (6,500 to 13,000 feet)<\/strong>. They are known to be found in eastern, central, and western Himalayas, but not in the Trans Himalayan region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List:<\/strong> Vulnerable<\/li>\n<li><strong>CITES:<\/strong> Appendix I<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972<\/strong>: Schedule I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Nameri Tiger Reserve<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is situated in the northern part of the Sonitpur district of Assam, along the foothills of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Nameri National Park constitutes the core of NTR, which is bound by rivers, viz. <strong>Jia-Bhoreli<\/strong> in the west and <strong>Bor-Dikorai<\/strong> in the east.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Pakke Tiger Reserve<\/strong> of Arunachal Pradesh is <strong>in the North<\/strong> and the habitat is contiguous.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It is made up of <strong>tropical evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous forests<\/strong> with cane brakes and narrow strips of open grassland along rivers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The habitat is biologically rich and is famous for the <strong>white winged wood duck,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Even Leopard cat, common otter, Black giant squirrel, Indian mongoose, Large clawed shrew, Indian flying fox, slow loris, Assameese macaque, Rhesus macaque are also found here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Project Tiger?<\/h3>\n<p>Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme (a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the MoEF&amp;CC) launched in 1973 by the Government of India and administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/himalayan-serow-spotted-in-nameri\/articleshow\/110478493.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Himalayan serow spotted in Nameri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan serow resembles a cross between a goat, a donkey, a cow, and a pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23763","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\/23763","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=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}