{"id":27152,"date":"2024-10-09T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:59:56","slug":"halari-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/halari-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Halari donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Halari donkey:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is native to the <strong>Halar region of Gujarat<\/strong> especially found in the in the semi-arid landscape of <strong>Jamnagar and Dwarka<\/strong> districts<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> It is white in colour, and is larger and <strong>more resilient<\/strong> than other donkey breeds.<\/li>\n<li>They are social animals and form close bonds with people, supporting them for transport needs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Bharwad and Rabari pastoralists<\/strong> are the main communities which use this donkey as a pack animal to carry luggage during migration with small ruminants.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kumbhar<\/strong> (potter) community also uses this animal for pottery work in Dwarka in the Jamnagar region.<\/li>\n<li>Halari donkey milk is known for its sweetness. Milk powder made from it can fetch upwards of \u20b97,000 a kg in the international market, and is <strong>used for cosmetic purposes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong> It is considered endangered; the surviving population of the Halari donkey numbers fewer than 500.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Who are Rabari pastoralists?<\/h3>\n<p>The Rabaris are pastoralist nomadic communities scattered across the deserts of western India. Traditionally, they earned their livelihood by grazing sheep, and tending to herds of cattle and buffaloes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/gujarat\/in-frames-brains-and-brawn-halari-donkeys-of-gujarat\/article68724113.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In Frames: Brains and brawn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halari donkey is native to the Halar region of Gujarat especially found in the in the semi-arid landscape of Jamnagar and Dwarka districts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27152","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\/27152","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=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}