{"id":223523,"date":"2023-01-23T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223523"},"modified":"2023-01-23T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:38:48","slug":"mahabali-frog-waiting-for-official-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahabali-frog-waiting-for-official-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahabali frog waiting for official recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cMahabali frog waiting for official recognition<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>23rd January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahabali Frog is waiting to be elevated as the State Frog of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Mahabali Frog?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahabali Frog (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) also known as Purple Frog is one of the rarest frog species endemic to the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The frog <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">buries itself all through the year and surfaces only one day to lay eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Named after<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is named after the mythical King Mahabali who visits his people once a year from the underneath world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purple frog has been acknowledged by bio-geographers all over the world as one of the rarest kinds and a \u201conce in a century find\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-purple-frogs-lineage-is-120-million-years-old-it-has-seen-earth-itself-evolve\/\"><b>Click Here to read more about Mahabali Frog<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMahabali frog waiting for official recognition\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd January 2023 What is the News? Mahabali Frog is waiting to be elevated as the State Frog of Kerala. What is the Mahabali Frog? Mahabali Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) also known as Purple Frog is one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahabali-frog-waiting-for-official-recognition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahabali frog waiting for official recognition<\/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-223523","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":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223523","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=223523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}