{"id":4884,"date":"2023-01-09T04:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:31:06","slug":"dwarf-boa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dwarf-boa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Boa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About \u00a0Dwarf Boa:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dwarf boa belongs to the family Tropidophiidae <strong>living high in the cloud forests of northeastern Ecuador.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The species is <strong>unusual for having a &#8220;vestigial pelvis&#8221; characteristic of primitive snakes<\/strong> and taken as evidence by some that snakes descended from lizards that lost their limbs over millions of years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its habitat<\/strong> includes tropical piedmont and lower evergreen montane forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The snake is alight brown in coloration with noticeable black blotches on the belly and muted blotches running down the back.<\/li>\n<li>Dark brown pigmentation is found through the center of the head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Vestigial structure?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Vestigial structures are rudimentary body parts that are smaller and simpler than the corresponding features possessed by the other members of a biological group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/new-dwarf-boa-found-in-ecuadoran-amazon\/article66345407.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran Amazon<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwarf boa belongs to the family Tropidophiidae living high in the cloud forests of northeastern Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4884","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\/4884","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=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}