{"id":84705,"date":"2026-01-29T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=84705"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:41:57","slug":"indo-pacific-leopard-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indo-pacific-leopard-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, conservationists have initiated Thailand&#8217;s first rewilding effort with the release of a young Indo-Pacific leopard shark into the waters off Maiton Island.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indo-Pacific leopard sharks are also <\/span><b>called zebra sharks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their names come from <\/span><b>their distinctive patterning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which <\/span><b>changes over time.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are <\/span><b>slow-swimming reef sharks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose bodies have either a spotted or striped pattern depending on their age.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Found in <\/span><b>tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> usually in the coastal waters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Reproduction:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These sharks <\/span><b>are oviparous,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meaning the females lay eggs\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Leopard sharks primarily eat <\/span><b>molluscs &amp; crustaceans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as small bony fishes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Life Span:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The average lifespan for a leopard shark in the <\/span><b>wild is 18 to 24 years.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overfishing and habitat loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Status: IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/climate-energy\/thailand-releases-endangered-leopard-sharks-conservation-push-2026-01-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indo-Pacific Leopard Sharks are slow-swimming reef sharks whose bodies have either a spotted or striped pattern depending on their age. Read more about Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark, Habitat, Reproduction, Diet, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":84709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5004],"class_list":{"0":"post-84705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indo-pacific-leopard-shark","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84705","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84746,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84705\/revisions\/84746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}