{"id":25878,"date":"2024-08-17T05:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25878"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:22:05","slug":"malabar-tree-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/malabar-tree-toad\/","title":{"rendered":"Malabar Tree Toad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Malabar Tree Toad:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the only species in the <strong>monotypic genus Pedostibes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>first discovered in 1876<\/strong> and the species was not sighted for more than 100 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was later rediscovered in 1980 at Silent Valley National Park in Kerala.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> It is endemic to India\u2019s <strong>Western Ghats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> It can be found along <strong>streams, on trees<\/strong>, and in tree cavities at a height of about 30 cm \u201310 m above the ground, in <strong>evergreen to moist deciduous forests<\/strong> at an altitude ranging from 50 m to over 1000 m above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It is the only <strong>arboreal species<\/strong> in India, having the unique <strong>capability to climb trees<\/strong> and dwell unlike the majority of the toads in the region that are ground-dwelling.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It comes to the <strong>ground to breed<\/strong> in water pools at the edges of the streams generated during the monsoon, implying that precipitation and moisture provide the necessary conditions for MTT to breed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are arboreal species?<\/h3>\n<p>Animals that live in the trees are called &#8216;arboreal&#8217; and they have some amazing adaptations to make the most of their leafy surroundings at every level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/endemic-malabar-tree-toad-populations-may-decline-687-due-to-climate-change-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endemic Malabar Tree Toad populations may decline 68.7% due to climate change: Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malabar Tree Toad is the only species in the monotypic genus Pedostibes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25878","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\/25878","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=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}