{"id":4298,"date":"2023-03-14T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:42:11","slug":"indian-black-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-black-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Black Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian Black Turtle:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian black turtle is a medium-sized found across the Indian subcontinent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>aquatic species,<\/strong> mainly associated with <strong>standing water bodies<\/strong>, sometimes rivers.<\/li>\n<li>The species is an <strong>omnivore,<\/strong> consuming both aquatic macrophytes and invertebrates.<\/li>\n<li>The species shows a crepuscular to a nocturnal lifestyle, with individuals seen foraging after dark along the edges of water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The distribution in India includes the hill ranges of <strong>the Western Ghats<\/strong>, south of Gujarat, and the southeast coast, and then a separate disjunct <strong>distribution in northern and northeastern India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>IUCN: Least concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is special about the Olive Ridley Turtle?<\/h3>\n<p>The olive ridley turtle is the most abundant sea turtle species in the world1 and is known for its mass nesting aggregations called arribadas.These are believed to be long-lived much like other sea turtles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/46-live-indian-black-turtles-seized-in-villupuram-district-two-held\/article66613514.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>46 live Indian Black Turtles seized in Villupuram district, two held<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian black turtle is a medium-sized found across the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4298","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\/4298","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=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}