{"id":24141,"date":"2024-06-11T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24141"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:13:57","slug":"four-horned-antelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/four-horned-antelope\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Four-Horned Antelope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Four-Horned Antelope:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The four-horned antelope, also called <strong>Chousingha<\/strong>, is a <strong>small bovid antelope<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>smallest antelopes<\/strong> found <strong>in Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Tetracerus quadricornis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>endemic to India and Nepal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In India, they range from the <strong>foothills of the Himalayas<\/strong> in the north to the <strong>Deccan Plateau<\/strong> in the south.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>They mostly occur in <strong>open, dry, deciduous forests in hilly terrain<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They inhabit areas with significant cover from grasses or heavy undergrowth, and <strong>close to water bodies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>They have a <strong>yellowish-brown to reddish coat<\/strong> and are <strong>slender<\/strong>, with <strong>small legs<\/strong> and a <strong>short tail.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These antelopes have <strong>four horns<\/strong>, which distinguish them from most other bovids, which have two horns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only males<\/strong> in this species <strong>grow horns<\/strong>. One pair of horns is located between the ears, and the other on the forehead.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>usually diurnal and solitary<\/strong> by nature; however, can be spotted in loose groups of three to four.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Vulnerable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is spread across Sagar, Damoh, and Narsinghpur, districts of <strong>Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is spread over an area of 2,339 square kilometres.<\/li>\n<li>It is the seventh tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>It will encompass areas within the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nauradehi-and-durgavati-wildlife-sanctuaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary and Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <strong>green corridor linking <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/panna-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR)<\/a><strong> with Durgavati will be developed<\/strong> for the natural movement of the tiger to the new reserve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers<\/strong>: Parts of the reserve fall under the <strong>Narmada and Yamuna River basins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Singorgarh Fort <\/strong>is located within the reserve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation: Dry deciduous type<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: The chief floral elements include <strong>Teak<\/strong>, Saja, <strong>Dhaora<\/strong>, Ber, Amla etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>: <strong>Tiger, leopard<\/strong>, wolf, jackal, Indian fox, striped hyena, Nilgai, Chinkara, Chital, Sambhar, Black Buck, Barking deer, Commom Langur, Rhesus Macaque, etc.<\/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.freepressjournal.in\/bhopal\/mp-rare-4-horned-antelope-sighted-in-veerangana-durgavati-tiger-reserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MP: Rare 4-Horned Antelope Sighted In Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-Horned Antelope, also called Chousingha, is a small bovid antelope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24141","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\/24141","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=24141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}