{"id":26142,"date":"2024-08-28T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26142"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:28:22","slug":"talley-valley-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/talley-valley-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Lower Subansiri district of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>plateau<\/strong> and covers an area of 337 sq. km.<\/li>\n<li>It is situated at an <strong>altitude of 2400 metres<\/strong>, with <strong>rivers like Pange, Sipu, Karing,<\/strong> and <strong>Subansiri<\/strong> flowing through the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary is home to the <strong>Apatani tribe<\/strong>, known for their unique customs, traditions, and handicrafts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a stunning spectrum of <strong>subtropical and alpine forests<\/strong> like <strong>silver fir trees<\/strong>, <strong>ferns<\/strong>, <strong>orchids, bamboo<\/strong>, and <strong>rhododendron<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pleioblastus simone<\/strong>, one of its <strong>kind of bamboo<\/strong>, can be <strong>found only in Talley Valley.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also home to <strong>several medicinal plants<\/strong> and herbs <strong>used by the local tribes<\/strong> for traditional medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>: It is home to a variety of animal species such as elephants, barking deer, giant squirrels, <strong>porcupines<\/strong>, <strong>leopards, clouded leopards<\/strong>, wild boars, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Who is a lepidopterist?<\/h3>\n<p>A lepidopterist is an entomologist who specialises in studying butterflies and moths. The name lepidopterist is derived from the name of the Order of butterflies and moths, Lepidoptera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nenews.in\/arunachal-pradesh\/85-butterfly-species-spotted-at-arunachal-pradeshs-tale-wildlife-sanctuary\/13302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">85 butterfly species spotted at Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Tale Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26142","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\/26142","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=26142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}