{"id":17150,"date":"2023-09-14T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:36:23","slug":"stump-tailed-macaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/14-09-2023\/stump-tailed-macaques","title":{"rendered":"Stump-Tailed Macaques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 3\/Species in news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some Stump-Tailed Macaques have been brought to the Delhi zoo from Mizoram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>About Stump-Tailed Macaques<\/strong><br><\/span><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/jqKaLmZqgQX65i8cP9SE0bItpDakvOLguZCX_t7Uje01ecHW3NKhBtnsn6wiR9ztEgn1eCwhzVAPamn5nqe-mcxw-hIo-N1Ra3zTroRyNOz6wsULJL8NuZO5iAuiGYAQMD3Z3zgIjvgUgizTJIm_nOM\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scientific Name :<\/strong> Macaca arctoides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is also called the bear macaque.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a primate species .<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Primarily frugivorous, they however also feed on many types of vegetation and small animals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Habitat and Distribution :&nbsp; <\/strong>The natural habitat of Stump-tailed macaques consists of subtropical and tropical broadleaf evergreen forest .\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is found in South Asia .\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Distributed in north eastern India , Myanmar, and China and Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Found in parts of Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Protection Status :&nbsp; It <\/strong>is listed under Appendix II in CITES.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India lists it as schedule II under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are listed as \u2018vulnerable\u2019 on the IUCN Red List of species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus :GS 3\/Species in news In News About Stump-Tailed Macaques<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17151,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions\/17151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}