{"id":6924,"date":"2024-08-05T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:23:14","slug":"bent-toed-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bent-toed-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Bent-toed Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bent-Toed Geckos:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The bent-toed geckos of the genus <strong>Cyrtodactylus <\/strong>are diverse.<\/li>\n<li>They are commonly known as <strong>bow-fingered geckos, and forest geckos<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Geckos are <strong>ectothermic,<\/strong> meaning they rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature.<\/li>\n<li>Reproduction in this gecko species typically occurs during the <strong>warm and wet seasons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution: <\/strong>Bent-toed geckos have about 346 species distributed across multiple biogeographic zones in <strong>Peninsular India, Sri Lanka, the Himalayan foothills<\/strong>, Northeast India, Southeast Asia and the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Highlights about the new species<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Namdapha bent-toed gecko:<\/strong> It was documented from the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh and is widespread within lowland evergreen forests of the <strong>Namdapha and Kamlang Tiger Reserves.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Siang Valley Bent-Toed Gecko<\/strong> (Arunachal Pradesh): It was discovered in the <strong>Siang River valley<\/strong>, renowned for its unique biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ngengpui bent-toed gecko (Mizoram):<\/strong> It was discovered from the <strong>Ngengpui Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong> of Lawngtlai district. The site is located in one of the easternmost protected areas of the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manipur bent-toed gecko:<\/strong> It was discovered near the Lamdan Kabui village of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kiphire bent-toed gecko and Barail Hill bent-toed gecko<\/strong> (Nagaland): These two were discovered in Nagaland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are endothermic species?<\/h3>\n<p>These are animals that generate and control its internal heat so that its body core temperature can be regulated at a level different from the ambient temperature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/scientists-discover-six-new-lineages-of-bent-toed-geckos-from-the-northeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists discover six new lineages of bent-toed geckos from the Northeast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bent-Toed Geckos have about 346 species distributed across multiple biogeographic zones in Peninsular India, Sri Lanka, the Himalayan foothills, Northeast India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6924","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\/6924","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=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}