{"id":2770,"date":"2023-02-06T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:40:46","slug":"white-tailed-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-tailed-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"White-tailed deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key facts about White-tailed deer:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are the <strong>smallest members of the North American deer family.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong><i><strong>Odocoileus virginianus<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: They are found in <strong>North America<\/strong> from southern <strong>Canada<\/strong> through <strong>Central America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Includes areas along s<strong>treams and rivers, mixed woodlands, farms, forest<\/strong>s, and <strong>burned shrub fields<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open areas<\/strong> are used <strong>only when thick shrubs<\/strong> or forests are <strong>nearby<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>tan or brown in the summer<\/strong> <strong>and grayish brown in winter<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>white on its throat<\/strong>, around its <strong>eyes<\/strong> and <strong>nose<\/strong>,\u00a0 on its <strong>stomach<\/strong>, and on the underside of its tail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only male deer grow antlers<\/strong>, which are shed each year.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>excellent runners<\/strong>. They can run at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status: \u2018Least Concern\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is SARS-CoV-2?<\/h3>\n<p>SARS-CoV-2 is a member of a large family of viruses called coronaviruses. These viruses can infect people and some animals. SARS-CoV-2 was first known to infect people in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/deer-may-serve-as-a-reservoir-for-old-sars-cov-2-variants\/article66470984.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Deers maybe reservoir for old SARS-CoV-2 variants<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White-tailed deer is the smallest member of the North American deer family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2770","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\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}