{"id":4405,"date":"2023-01-21T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:40:35","slug":"mahabali-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mahabali-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahabali Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mahabali frog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mahabali frog is also known as the pignose frog.<\/li>\n<li>It is endemic to the <strong>Western Ghat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: These frogs prefer loose, damp and well-aerated soil close to ponds and ditches or streams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Specific Traits of this frog<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unlike other frogs, it has <strong>very short hind legs,<\/strong> which do not allow it to leap from one spot to another.<\/li>\n<li>It buries itself all through the year and surfaces only one day to lay eggs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN &#8211; Near Threatened<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1) How many Ramsar sites are there in Kerala?<\/p>\n<p>There are three Ramsar sites in Kerala namely, Vembanad Lake, Ashtamudi Lake and Sasthamkotta Lake in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/mahabali-frog-waiting-for-official-recognition\/article66398141.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mahabali frog waiting for official recognition<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mahabali frog is also known as the pignose frog. It is endemic to the Western Ghat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4405","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\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}