{"id":16280,"date":"2016-10-05T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16280"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:09:51","slug":"new-species-pika-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/new-species-pika-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New species of Pika discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently New species of Pika discovered at which of the following place?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Nepal<br \/>\n(b) Sikkim<br \/>\n(c) Nagaland<br \/>\n(d) Tibet<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 30 September 2016 Researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru have identified a new species of Pika, high up in the Sikkim Himalayas.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new species has been named Ochotona sikimaria.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new species is limited to Sikkim.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pikas are members of the rabbit family and live either high up in the mountains or in cold (temperate) places as they are highly cold-adapted.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This feature of their biology makes them sensitive to habitat loss from increasing global temperature.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The majority of Pika species described to date are of Asian origin.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pikas are particularly important because they are considered indicators of climate change based on studies in North America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ncbs.res.in\/story\/new-species-pika-discovered-sikkim-himalayas\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.ncbs.res.in\/story\/new-species-pika-discovered-sikkim-himalayas<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/new-species-of-pika-found-in-sikkim\/1\/772676.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/new-species-of-pika-found-in-sikkim\/1\/772676.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/sikkim-new-species-of-pika-found-3048941\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/sikkim-new-species-of-pika-found-3048941\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently New species of Pika discovered at which of the following place? (a) Nepal (b) Sikkim (c) Nagaland (d) Tibet Ans: (b) Related facts: On 30 September 2016 Researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru have identified a new species of Pika, high up in the Sikkim Himalayas. The new species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-16280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16280","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16280"}],"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=16280"},{"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=16280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}