{"id":588,"date":"2023-06-13T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=588"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:38:56","slug":"q-which-one-of-the-following-is-the-national-aquatic-animal-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-one-of-the-following-is-the-national-aquatic-animal-of-india","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which one of the following is the national aquatic animal of India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Saltwater crocodile<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olive ridley turtle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gangetic dolphin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gharial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) Gangetic dolphin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gangetic dolphin (Susu)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Ganges River Dolphin or also called \u2018Susu,\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0<strong>National Aquatic Animal<\/strong>\u00a0of India. It is one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/national-symbols-of-india-upsc\/\">National Symbols of India<\/a>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ganges River Dolphin is&nbsp;<strong>found only in freshwater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As the name goes, the Ganges Dolphin are&nbsp;<strong>endemic to the river Ganga<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are at the&nbsp;<strong>apex&nbsp;<\/strong>of the aquatic food chain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is the official animal of the Assam\u2019s capital Guwahati.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They&nbsp;<strong>use the way of \u2018Echolocation\u2019 to trap their prey<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ganges River Dolphin along with Indus River Dolphin is the sub-species of South Asian River Dolphin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gangetic Dolphins are found in the river systems of&nbsp;<strong>Ganga, Brahmaputra, Meghna, and Karnaphuli-Sangu in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ganges River Dolphins (Platanista Gangetica) was officially discovered in 1801. The original stretches where the National Aquatic Animal of India are found:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Systems and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Karnaphuli-Sangu River Systems;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The reason to declare Ganges River Dolphin as the National Aquatic Animal of India was&nbsp;<strong>to save it from extinction<\/strong>. Also, the&nbsp;<strong>Ganges Dolphin is seen as the reflector of the health of the Ganga River.<\/strong>&nbsp;The declaration was made in 2009 in the&nbsp;<strong>National Ganga River Basin Authority\u2019s (NGRBA)<\/strong>&nbsp;first meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gangetic-dolphin-1024x917.jpeg\" alt=\"Gangetic dolphin\" class=\"wp-image-39837\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_5fc6d6-26 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_5fc6d6-26 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_5fc6d6-26\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (c) Gangetic dolphin Gangetic dolphin (Susu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[36],"years":[58],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-environment","years-58"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":36,"label":"Environment"}],"years":[{"value":58,"label":"2015"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":36,"name":"Environment","slug":"environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":193,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}