{"id":2628,"date":"2023-02-04T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:31:26","slug":"asiatic-black-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asiatic-black-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiatic black bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Asiatic black bear<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Asiatic black bear is known as <strong>the Moon bear<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Asiatic black bear has 7 subspecies, out of which we find the <strong>Himalayan Black Bear<\/strong> subspecies in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>The Asiatic Black Bear has a coat of smooth black fur and can be distinguished by a V of white fur on its chest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> The Asiatic black bear lives in a narrow band stretching from south-eastern Iran to Myanmar, across the Himalayan foothills.<\/li>\n<li>In India, it is found in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li>The Asiatic black bear is omnivorous.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Vulnerable<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CITES: Appendix I<\/li>\n<li>Wild Life Protection Act 1972: Schedule II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Where do we find Sloth Bear?<\/h3>\n<p>Sloth bears are endemic to the Indian sub-continent and are found in all parts of India except Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/kashmir-bucks-trend-of-asiatic-black-bear-attacks-over-2000-incidents-reported-in-20-years\/article66463752.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>2,357 attacks in 20 years: calm Asiatic black bears on a short fuse in Kashmir<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asiatic black bear has 7 subspecies, out of which we find the Himalayan Black Bear subspecies in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2628","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\/2628","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=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}