Question : The new report of the World Wildlife Fund has identified how many new species, including the ghostly monkey, from the Mekong region ?
a. 224 new species
b. 124 new species
c. 84 new species
d. 64 new species
Ans. a.
Related facts —
- The new report of the World Wildlife Fund has recently(January 2022) identified 224 new species, including the ghostly monkey, from the Mekong region.
- The ghostly monkey or the popa langur(PL) lives on the hill of Mout Popa.
- Mount Popa is a dead volcano in Myanmar.
- It is noteworthy that Mekong region is a biodiversity hotspot and home to tigers, Asian elephants, saola – an extremely rare animal also called the Asian unicorn or spindlehorn – and thousands of other species.
- Including this latest list, scientists have identified more than 3,000 new species in the region since 1997.
- The PL was identified based on genetic matching of recently gathered bones with specimens from Britain’s Natural History Museum collected more than a century ago.
- They have a ghostly white circle around their eyes, which gives them their identity.
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