{"id":130893,"date":"2022-01-28T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130893"},"modified":"2022-01-28T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:03:43","slug":"popa-langur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/popa-langur\/","title":{"rendered":"Popa Langur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : The new report of the World Wildlife Fund has identified how many new species, including the ghostly monkey, from the Mekong region ?<\/strong><br>a. 224 new species<br>b. 124 new species<br>c. 84 new species<br>d. 64 new species<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new report of the World Wildlife Fund has recently(January 2022) identified 224 new species, including the ghostly monkey, from the Mekong region.<\/li><li>The ghostly monkey or the popa langur(PL) lives on the hill of Mout Popa.<\/li><li>Mount Popa is a dead volcano in Myanmar.<\/li><li>It is noteworthy that Mekong region is a biodiversity hotspot and home to tigers, Asian elephants, saola &#8211; an extremely rare animal also called the Asian unicorn or spindlehorn &#8211; and thousands of other species.<\/li><li>Including this latest list, scientists have identified more than 3,000 new species in the region since 1997.<\/li><li>The PL was identified based on genetic matching of recently gathered bones with specimens from Britain&#8217;s Natural History Museum collected more than a century ago.<\/li><li>They have a ghostly white circle around their eyes, which gives them their identity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/environment\/flora-fauna\/ghostly-monkey-succulent-bamboo-among-new-species-in-mekong\/articleshow\/89146270.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/environment\/flora-fauna\/ghostly-monkey-succulent-bamboo-among-new-species-in-mekong\/articleshow\/89146270.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 speciesb. 124 new speciesc. 84 new speciesd. 64 new speciesAns. a.Related facts &#8212; The new report of the World Wildlife Fund has recently(January 2022) identified 224 new species, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-130893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130895,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130893\/revisions\/130895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}