{"id":254765,"date":"2023-08-04T20:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=254765"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T05:55:34","slug":"endangered-himalayan-vulture-bred-in-captivity-for-the-first-time-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/endangered-himalayan-vulture-bred-in-captivity-for-the-first-time-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Himalayan vulture, bred in captivity for the first time in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><br \/>\nSource: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cEndangered Himalayan vulture, bred in captivity for the first time in India\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 4th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have recorded the first instance of captive breeding of the Himalayan vulture (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gyps himalayensis) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in India at the Assam State Zoo, Guwahati.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Captive breeding?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captive breeding is the process of breeding animals outside of their natural environment in restricted conditions in farms, zoos or other closed facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choice of individual animals that are to be part of a captive breeding population, and the mating partners within that population, are controlled by humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Himalayan vulture?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_254766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254766\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-254766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpeg?resize=428%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: wiki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Himalayan Griffon vulture or Himalayan Vulture inhabits the higher regions of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can fly at an elevation of up to 5,500 metre with help of their wide and powerful wings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They generally feed on dead carcasses and would sometimes wait for a few days before eating the dead animal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About <\/b><b>Vulture Conservation Breeding Centres(VCBC):<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vulture Conservation Breeding Centres(VCBC) have been established by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) at Pinjore in Haryana, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Rani in Assam and Rajabhatkhawa in West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These centres are involved in conservation breeding of the white-rumped vulture (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gyps bengalensis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), slender-billed vulture<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gyps tenuirostris<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), and the Indian vulture (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gyps indicus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cEndangered Himalayan vulture, bred in captivity for the first time in India\u201d \u00a0published in The Hindu on 4th August 2023. What is the News? Researchers have recorded the first instance of captive breeding of the Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) in India at the Assam State Zoo, Guwahati.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/endangered-himalayan-vulture-bred-in-captivity-for-the-first-time-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Endangered Himalayan vulture, bred in captivity for the first time in India<\/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":[1566,9,11834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","category-species-in-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254765","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=254765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}