{"id":5768,"date":"2025-03-24T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T06:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:28:47","slug":"5768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Debabrata Phukon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Veterinary Officer<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guwahati \u2013 781 005<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5769 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1.jpg 425w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North-East India has a great diversity of Agamids, <em>Calotes jerdoni<\/em>, commonly known as the Indo-Chinese Forest Lizard or Jerdon&#8217;s forest lizard, is among these beautiful lizards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Location: Kisama village, Nagaland<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5770 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"206\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.jpg 206w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-68x90.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assam State Zoo\u2019s Rescue Centre receives a lot of nests fall cases of the Near Threatened Greater Adjutant Stork (<em>Leptoptilos dubius<\/em>) which are hand-raised and rehabilitated back to the wild. They can be distinguished from the Lesser Adjutant in having a gular pouch and white band in the primary feathers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5771 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"364\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3.jpg 364w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-134x90.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Sinomicrurus macclellandi<\/em>, commonly known as MacClelland&#8217;s coral snake, is one among the eight beautiful coral snake species discovered in India to date and one of the two species recorded from North-east India, the other being <em>S. gorei.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5772 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"554\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4.jpg 554w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-123x90.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Indian Tent Turtle <em>(Pangshura tentoria<\/em>) is native to India, Nepal and Bangladesh, with three subspecies recorded from the region viz., <em>P. t. tentoria<\/em>, <em>P.<\/em> <em>t. circumdata<\/em> and <em>P. t. flaviventer.<\/em> Due to the attractive appearance of the species, they are illegally traded in the pet market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5773 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"415\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5.jpg 415w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-68x90.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Crested Goshawk (<em>Lophospiza trivirgata<\/em>) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae that is widely distributed in tropical Asia. Like its relatives, this secretive forest bird hunts birds, mammals and reptiles in woodland, relying on surprise as it flies from a perch to catch its prey unaware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Biodiversity.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Debabrata Phukon Veterinary Officer Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden Guwahati \u2013 781 005 North-East India has a great diversity of Agamids, Calotes jerdoni, commonly known as the Indo-Chinese Forest Lizard or Jerdon&#8217;s forest lizard, is among these beautiful lizards. Location: Kisama village, Nagaland Assam State Zoo\u2019s Rescue Centre receives a lot of nests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babrone.avfu.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}