{"id":29332,"date":"2025-01-11T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29332"},"modified":"2025-04-09T02:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:47:06","slug":"manis-indoburmanica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/manis-indoburmanica\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Manis Indoburmanica?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Manis Indoburmanica:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species of pangolin<\/strong> genetically <strong>distinct from Chinese and Indian pangolins<\/strong> found in India.<\/li>\n<li>The species has been named <strong>Indo-Burmese pangolin<\/strong> (Manis Indoburmanica).<\/li>\n<li>Genetic analysis has shown that the Indo-Burmese pangolin is <strong>3.8% different from <\/strong>the <strong>Chinese pangolin<\/strong> (Manis pentadactyla).\n<ul>\n<li>The species diverged from the Chinese pangolin around 3.4 million years ago, probably owing to climatic and geological changes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The species is believed to inhabit parts of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,<\/strong> and potentially extend into <strong>Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is found at altitudes ranging from 180 to 1830 meters above sea level and has <strong>dark brown and olive-brown scales with a pinkish face<\/strong>, <strong>typical of other Asian pangolins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Pangolins:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pangolins are <strong>mammals<\/strong> that belong to the family Manidae and are found in <strong>Africa and Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>eight different species<\/strong> of pangolins: <strong>four in Africa and four in Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are unique because they are the <strong>only mammals covered in large, protective keratinscales<\/strong>, which they <strong>use as armour<\/strong>, <strong>curling up into a ball when threatened <\/strong>by predators.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>myrmecophagous<\/strong>, meaning they <strong>primarily eat ants and termites<\/strong>, using their <strong>long, sticky tongues<\/strong> to capture these insects.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, pangolins are <strong>fossorial<\/strong>, which means they are <strong>adapted for digging <\/strong>and <strong>creating burrows<\/strong> where they often reside.<\/li>\n<li>Pangolins are among the <strong>most trafficked animals globally<\/strong>, partly due to the demand for their scales in traditional medicine and as luxury items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What is keratin?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Keratin is a protein that helps form hair, nails and your skin&#8217;s outer layer (epidermis). It helps support your skin, heal wounds and keep your nails and hair healthy. There are 54 kinds of keratin in your body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/zsi-team-discovers-new-pangolin-species-in-arunachal\/articleshow\/117093375.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manis Indoburmanica is a new species of pangolin genetically distinct from Chinese and Indian pangolins found in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29332","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\/29332","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=29332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}