{"id":58170,"date":"2025-08-05T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58170"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:02:48","slug":"asian-giant-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asian-giant-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Giant Tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Asian Giant Tortoise Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Asian giant tortoise, the largest tortoise in mainland Asia, has been reintroduced into the Zeliang Community Reserve in Nagaland\u2019s Peren district.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Asian Giant Tortoise<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Asian Giant Tortoise (Manouria emys phayrei) is the <\/span><b>largest tortoise in Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is considered to be one of the <\/span><b>oldest tortoise lineages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world. And these ancient tortoises share an interesting behavior with many crocodilians\u2014to protect their eggs and maintain appropriate temperatures for incubation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As hatchlings, these tortoises appear a grayish brown, and become more charcoal colored as they mature into adulthood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Asian Giant Tortoise can be found in the <\/span><b>tropical and subtropical hill forests.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are found in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia and other places.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bamboo shoots, tubers and other juicy vegetation and some invertebrates and frogs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hunting for consumption, habitat loss, anthropogenic activities like construction and slash and burn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Critically Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>CITES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Appendix II<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/seeds-of-seabuckthorn-himalayan-buckwheat-part-of-experiment-on-iss\/article69889456.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Giant Tortoise is considered to be one of the oldest tortoise lineages in the world. 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