{"id":6809,"date":"2023-03-29T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:36:16","slug":"puma-puma-concolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/puma-puma-concolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Puma (Puma concolor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0recent study revealed that Puma is using a <strong>garden-to-hunt strategy<\/strong>; meaning they <strong>fertilise the soil in their hunting spots<\/strong> with their kills to attract more prey.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The animal carcasses of their prey are helping the animals <strong>create nutrient-rich hotspots <\/strong>that may continue to improve their future hunting success over time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These nutrients in the soil increase plant quality and attract ungulates \u2014 large mammals with hooves.<\/li>\n<li>Decomposing ungulate carcasses deposits elevated nitrogen, carbon and other valuable elements that improve soil and plants\u2019 chemistry and nutrient makeup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Puma (Puma concolor):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Puma is a member of the family Felidae and is also called <strong>mountain lion, cougar<\/strong>, or catamount (archaic).<\/li>\n<li>It is a large brownish New World cat comparable in size to the jaguar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitats: <\/strong>Pumas live in a variety of habitats, including <strong>desert scrub, chaparral, swamps, and forests<\/strong> but they avoid agricultural areas, flatlands, and other habitats lacking cover (vegetative or topographic).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Puma has the widest distribution of any New World mammal, with a range extending from <strong>southeastern Alaska to southern Argentina and Chile.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Least Concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Topographic maps?<\/h3>\n<p>Topographic maps are detailed, accurate graphic representations of features that appear on the Earth&#8217;s surface. It usually shows a geographic graticule and a coordinate grid, so you can determine the relative and absolute positions of mapped features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/secret-lives-of-cougars-pumas-might-be-gardening-to-attract-prey-to-hunting-hotspots-88505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Secret lives of cougars: Pumas might be \u2018gardening\u2019 to attract prey to hunting hotspots<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puma is a member of the family Felidae and is also called mountain lion, cougar, or catamount (archaic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6809","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\/6809","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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}