{"id":63733,"date":"2025-09-16T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63733"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:09:40","slug":"red-coral-kukri-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-coral-kukri-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Coral Kukri Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Red Coral Kukri Snake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a rare Red Coral Kukri Snake species, last reported in 1936, was recently found trapped in a net in a village field near <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-pilibhit-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pilibhit Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Red Coral Kukri Snake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is identified as <\/span><b>Oligodon kheriensis.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the rarest <\/span><b>non venomous snake species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><b>nocturnal and fossorial snake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is specialized with <\/span><b>curved teeth like kukri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Nepalian Knife). Hence, they are called \u201cKukri\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its <\/span><b>whole body including<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>head is uniform bright<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coral-red without any patterns and the underside is yellowish or pinkish hence it is one of the most distinct snakes of its range.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its head is short, not broader than the neck and bears an obtusely pointed snout.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is widely distributed in <\/span><b>lowlands (below 1500ft) of Himalayan foothills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Uttrakhand, Nepal, northern parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal to Sikkim and western Assam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation Status of Red Coral Kukri Snake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern (LC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wild Life Protection Act:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule \u2013IV<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Pilibhit Tiger Reserve<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the state of <\/span><b>Uttar Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies along the <\/span><b>India-Nepal border<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the foothills of the Himalayas and is part of the Terai Arc Landscape.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The river Gomti originates from the PTR, which is also the catchment of several others like Sharda, Chuka, and Mala Khannot.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The habitat is characterized by dense sal forests and tall alluvial grasslands, savannahs, and impenetrable swamps, maintained by periodic flooding from rivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Sharda Sagar Dam,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extending up to a length of 22 km, is on the boundary of the reserve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a dry and hot climate, which brings a combination of dry teak forest and Vindhya Mountain soils.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/editor-detail\/Rare-Red-Coral-Kukri-snake-spotted-in-Pilibhit-Tiger-Reserve-after-decades\/2917723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PTI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Coral Kukri Snake is one of the rarest non venomous snake species. 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