{"id":47766,"date":"2025-05-16T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47766"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:04:51","slug":"blyde-rondavel-flat-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/blyde-rondavel-flat-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a flat-bodied lizard species, was rediscovered in April 2025 in the Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, after being unrecorded for 34 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>8\u20139 cm long<\/strong>\u00a0when fully grown.<\/li>\n<li>It is likely\u00a0<strong>rock-dwelling<\/strong>, with adaptations suited to\u00a0<strong>cliffs and isolated habitats<\/strong>, explaining its elusiveness.<\/li>\n<li>It was originally\u00a0<strong>discovered in 1991<\/strong>, but has not been sighted again, leading to\u00a0<strong>speculation about its extinction<\/strong>\u00a0or doubts regarding its\u00a0<strong>distinct species status<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The gecko was previously listed as a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Data Deficient&#8221; species<\/strong>\u00a0by the\u00a0<strong>International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)<\/strong>\u00a0due to a\u00a0<strong>lack of sufficient sightings or information<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT)<\/strong>\u00a0confirmed the rediscovery through a\u00a0<strong>research expedition\u00a0<\/strong>to an\u00a0<strong>inaccessible rocky outcrop<\/strong>\u00a0of the canyon where the gecko was first found.<\/li>\n<li>This gecko is the\u00a0<strong>fifth animal<\/strong>\u00a0rediscovered in recent years by the\u00a0<strong>Endangered Wildlife Trust<\/strong>, following:\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>dune mole<\/strong>\u00a0(rediscovered after 80 years),<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>butterfly<\/strong>, a\u00a0<strong>lizard<\/strong>, and a\u00a0<strong>frog species<\/strong>, all previously thought to be lost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko is a small 8\u20139 cm long lizard species, likely adapted to rocky cliff habitats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>Where was it rediscovered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It was rediscovered by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) on an inaccessible rocky outcrop in Blyde River Canyon, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-flat-bodied-south-african-gecko.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PHY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko is a small lizard, about 8\u20139 cm long, likely adapted to rocky cliff habitats for camouflage and protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[478,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-blyde-rondavel-flat-gecko","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}