{"id":38703,"date":"2021-03-15T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38703"},"modified":"2021-03-15T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:03:27","slug":"gregarious-bamboo-flowering-in-wws-a-threat-to-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/gregarious-bamboo-flowering-in-wws-a-threat-to-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gregarious bamboo flowering\u2019 in WWS a threat to wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u2018gregarious flowering of bamboo\u2019 inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and the nearby Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Gudalur forest division in Tamil Nadu may pose a threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bamboosa bambos is a monocarpic (flowering only once) plant belonging to the Poaceae family (grass family), and its flowering cycle varies from 40 to 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bamboosa bambos is also known as the giant thorny bamboo, Indian thorny bamboo, spiny bamboo, or thorny bamboo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a species of clumping bamboo native to southern Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a tall, bright-green coloured spiny bamboo species, which grows in thickets consisting of a large number of heavily branched, closely growing culms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bamboo groves in the Wayanad forest are the mainstay of herbivores in the Nilgiri biosphere during summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the advent of the season, migration of wild animals starts from the adjacent sanctuaries in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to Wayanad due to shortage of fodder and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gregarious flowering may adversely affect migration, especially by elephants, wild gaur, and other lower herbivores owing to the mass destruction of bamboo groves after the flowering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018gregarious flowering of bamboo\u2019 inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and the nearby Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Gudalur forest division in Tamil Nadu may pose a threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Bamboosa bambos is a monocarpic (flowering only once) plant belonging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":38704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[1189],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-38703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-environment-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38705,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703\/revisions\/38705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=38703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}