{"id":3974,"date":"2023-03-09T05:16:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:22:29","slug":"guindy-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/guindy-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Guindy National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Guindy National Park:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Guindy is India\u2019s <strong>eighth-smallest national park<\/strong> and one of the very few national parks <strong>located inside a city.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located in the heart of <strong>Chennai\u2019s metropolitan area<\/strong> of <strong>Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>last remnants of the tropical dry evergreen forests<\/strong> of the Coromandel Coast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> Tropical dry evergreen forest, Scrub and thorn forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Blackbuck, Toddy cat, Civet cat, Jungle cat, Pangolin, Hedgehog, Shrew and black-naped hare etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about the tropical dry evergreen forests of India<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest is a <strong>unique forest found only in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its distribution is restricted <strong>to the narrow coastal strip<\/strong> from Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh in the north to Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu in the south.<\/li>\n<li>The dissymmetric climatic condition of this region, where <strong>rainfall occurs both during summer and winter monsoons<\/strong> and extended the dry season from March to September, favours the development and sustenance of the Tropical Dry Evergreen forest in this narrow strip.<\/li>\n<li>The TDEF has a mixture of trees, shrubs, lianas, and herbs and forms a complete canopy in pristine condition and provides habitat to a wide variety of animals including insects, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a monsoon?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A monsoon is a shift in winds that often causes a very rainy season or a very dry season. Although monsoons are usually associated with parts of Asia, they can happen in many tropical and subtropical regions .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/63-species-of-birds-spotted-at-guindy-national-park\/articleshow\/98504268.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>63 species of birds spotted at Guindy national park<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guindy is India\u2019s eighth-smallest national park and one of the very few national parks located inside a city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3974","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\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}