{"id":69709,"date":"2025-10-22T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69709"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:14:12","slug":"malabar-gliding-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/malabar-gliding-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Malabar Gliding Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Malabar Gliding Frog Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rare species known as the Malabar Gliding Frog was sighted at Hirebagewadi near Belagavi recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Malabar Gliding Frog<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Malabar gliding frog, or <\/span><b>Malabar flying frog,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a special type of <\/span><b>tree frog.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific Name: Rhacophorus malabaricus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Habitat and Distribution:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>endemic <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the rainforests of the <\/span><b>Western Ghats of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically located on <\/span><b>tree leaves near streams or riverbanks, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it migrates to overhanging trees above water bodies for breeding, where its tadpoles are released.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These frogs are famous for their <\/span><b>amazing ability to &#8220;glide&#8221; through the air using the webbing between its toes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can leap as far as 9 to 12 meters (about 30 to 40 feet). It&#8217;s about 115 times their own body length.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Appearance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This frog has a body length of about 10 cm (4 in), making it <\/span><b>one of the largest moss frogs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Males are smaller than females.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>back skin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is finely granulated, and the color is <\/span><b>vivid green without markings.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The frog&#8217;s <\/span><b>belly is pale yellow <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and feels rougher.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>webbing between fingers and toes is large and orange-red.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Conservation Status:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IUCN Red List:<\/span><b> Least Concern<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hubballi\/rare-malabar-gliding-frog-spotted-in-hirebagewadi-forests\/amp_articleshow\/124726094.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TOI<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malabar Gliding Frog is a special type of tree frog endemic to the rainforests of the Western Ghats of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":70166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3399],"class_list":{"0":"post-69709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-malabar-gliding-frog","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69709","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}