{"id":6231,"date":"2023-03-19T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T05:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:04:55","slug":"raccoon-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/raccoon-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Raccoon Dogs:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Raccoon dogs belong to the canid family and are <strong>closely related to foxes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are the only canids that hibernate during the winter.<\/li>\n<li>As per Slate, there are two species of raccoon dogs: \u201c<strong>Nyctereutes procyonoides,<\/strong> the common raccoon dog (the species that was in the Wuhan market) and Nyctereutes p. viverrinus, <strong>the Japanese raccoon dog.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>omnivores<\/strong> and relish food sources such as rodents and berries.<\/li>\n<li>Raccoon dogs are <strong>originally from East Asia<\/strong> and are commonly found in parts of China, Korea and Japan, where they are known as tanuki.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is genetic data?<\/h3>\n<p>Genetic data&#8217; means personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/raccoon-dogs-coronavirus-pandemic-origins-8506860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Raccoon dogs linked to coronavirus pandemic: What are these animals?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raccoon dogs belong to the canid family and are closely related to foxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6231","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\/6231","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=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}