{"id":5020,"date":"2023-01-14T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:18:43","slug":"nicobar-long-tailed-macaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nicobar-long-tailed-macaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nicobar long-tailed macaque<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a subspecies of the larger family of long-tailed macaques found across South-East Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This particular subspecies is distinct from its cousins in appearance, behaviour and geographical location.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The macaque is found in only three of the Nicobar islands\u2014<strong>Katchal, Little Nicobar<\/strong>, and Great Nicobar\u2014with GNI being home to the largest population.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protection status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0IUCN:<\/strong> <strong>Vulnerable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Great Nicobar Island (GNI)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>GNI lies between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea in a tectonically sensitive zone. The largest of the Nicobar group of islands at 910 square kilometres.<\/li>\n<li>Great Nicobar is home to two national parks; <strong>Campbell Bay<\/strong> and <strong>Galathea National Parks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribal groups:<\/strong> The Shompen and Nicobarese tribal peoples reside on this Island.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the location of INS Baaz naval air station?<\/h3>\n<p>It is located near Campbell Bay, is under the joint-services Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) of the Indian Armed Forces and it is the southernmost air station of the Indian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<u>Flora and fauna of Great Nicobar in great peril<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaque is found in only three of Nicobar islands\u2014Katchal, Little Nicobar, and Great Nicobar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5020","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\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}