{"id":167458,"date":"2022-02-09T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=167458"},"modified":"2022-02-09T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:33:38","slug":"meet-indias-newest-mammal-white-cheeked-macaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/meet-indias-newest-mammal-white-cheeked-macaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet India\u2019s newest mammal: White Cheeked Macaque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have found a new mammal species named \u201cWhite Cheeked Macaque\u201d from <\/span>central Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is <\/b>White Cheeked Macaque?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Source: DNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scientific Name: <\/b>Macaca leucogenys<\/span><\/p>\n

It <\/span>was first <\/b>discovered in 2015 <\/b>by a group of Chinese scientists from southeastern Tibet.<\/span><\/p>\n

This macaque is distinct from other macaques <\/b>found in the region as it displays white cheeks, long and thick hairs on the neck area and a longer tail.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also the last mammal to have been discovered in Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Arunachal macaque, as well as the White Cheeked Macaque, exist in the same biodiversity hotspot in the eastern Himalayas.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the significance of this discovery?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Firstly,<\/b> with this discovery,<\/span>\u00a0India\u2019s mammal count increases from 437 to 438.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly, <\/b>this discovery will lay the foundation of the species being covered by the Wildlife Protection Act<\/a> of India, which presently doesn\u2019t cover it simply because we didn\u2019t know it existed in India.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Two plant species discovered in Kerala<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201cMeet India\u2019s newest mammal: White Cheeked Macaque\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 9th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have found a new mammal species named \u201cWhite Cheeked Macaque\u201d from central Arunachal Pradesh. What is White Cheeked Macaque? Scientific Name: Macaca leucogenys It was first discovered in 2015 by a group of Chinese scientists from southeastern Tibet. This macaque is distinct from… Continue reading Meet India\u2019s newest mammal: White Cheeked Macaque<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-167458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699925235},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}