{"id":7395,"date":"2022-11-27T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:57:48","slug":"black-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Corals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Black Corals:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Black corals can be found growing both in shallow waters and down to depths of\u00a0<strong>over 26,000 feet (8,000 metres), and some individual corals can live for over 4,000 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Many of these corals are branched and look like feathers, fans or bushes, while others are straight like a whip.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike their colourful, shallow-water cousins that rely on the sun and photosynthesis for energy, black corals are filter feeders and eat tiny zooplankton that are abundant in deep waters.<\/li>\n<li>Among the many interesting specimens were\u00a0<strong>five new species<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 including one that was found growing on the shell of a nautilus more than 2,500 feet (760 metres) below the ocean\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly to shallow-water corals that build colourful reefs full of fish, black corals act as important habitats where fish and invertebrates feed and hide from predators in what is otherwise a mostly barren sea floor.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For example, a single black coral colony researchers<\/strong>\u00a0collected in 2005 off the coast of California, United States, was home to 2,554 individual invertebrates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black corals can be found growing both in shallow waters and down to depths of over 26,000 feet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7395","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\/7395","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=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}