{"id":6964,"date":"2022-11-30T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:39:09","slug":"binturong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/binturong\/","title":{"rendered":"Binturong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Binturong:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The binturong (Arctictis binturong) is a medium-sized mammal, also known as a bearcat, of the Viverridae family, which includes civets, linsangs and genets.<\/li>\n<li>Its nine subspecies are the sole occupants of the genus Arctictis.<\/li>\n<li>They can weigh up to 50 pounds, but most often weigh in at between 25 and 35 pounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Range:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Binturongs live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Its range extends from Nepal, India, and Bhutan southward to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java and eastward to Borneo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Prehensile Tail:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The animals spend most of their time hanging out in the treetops.<\/li>\n<li>The animal uses its tail\u2014which is almost as long as its body\u2014like a fifth limb as it climbs through the forest.<\/li>\n<li>This tail is prehensile, which means it\u2019s capable of gripping things.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The binturong is one of only two carnivores that has a prehensile tail.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The other is the kinkajou.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Conservation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are classified as a<strong>\u00a0vulnerable species by IUCN.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binturong is a medium-sized mammal, also known as a bearcat, of the Viverridae family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6964","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\/6964","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=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}