{"id":8854,"date":"2020-07-06T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:12:39","slug":"assam-keelback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/assam-keelback\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam keelback"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Environment<\/strong><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.time8.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Assam-Keel-back-in-Natural-Habitat-Photo-credit-Dhritiman-Mukherjee-1593437613-696x557.jpg\" alt=\"TIME8 | Assam Keelback Re-Appeared after 129 Years\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Assam keelback has recently been rediscovered after 129 years in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>About:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The scientific name is Herpetoreas pealii.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>commonly known as Assam keelback; Peal\u2019s keelback.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is a species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The species is endemic to Northeast India. It has been recorded from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The species is small \u2014 about 60 cm long, brownish, with a patterned belly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It was discovered 129 years ago in 1891 by Samuel Edward Peal, a British tea planter based in Upper Assam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Environment Why in news? \u2022 Assam keelback has recently been rediscovered after 129 years in Arunachal Pradesh. About:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8856,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions\/8856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}