http://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Florican%3A_India Florican: India - Revision history 2026-07-11T12:01:23Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?title=Florican:_India&diff=137037&oldid=prev Jyoti at 09:10, 15 July 2025 2025-07-15T09:10:17Z <p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 09:10, 15 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|-</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|colspan=&quot;0&quot;|&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:100%&quot;&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.&lt;br/&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook &lt;br/&gt;community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. All information used will be gratefully &lt;br/&gt;acknowledged in your name. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;/div&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:India |F ]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Flora |F ]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=Status=</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==As of 2025== </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=11_07_2025_010_020_cap_TOI&#160; Nimesh Khakhariya, July 11, 2025: ''The Times of India'']</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File: Lesser floricans.jpg|Lesser floricans &lt;br/&gt; From: [https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=11_07_2025_010_020_cap_TOI&#160; Nimesh Khakhariya, July 11, 2025: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This monsoon, conservation experts in Gujarat are racing against time to save the critically endangered lesser florican, the world’s smallest bustard. After a complete breeding failure last year, they are now deploying an unusual strategy involving female decoys to attract male birds. 
</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the Conservation Breeding Centre (CBC) in Velavadar National Park, 150km from Ahmedabad, wildlife officials are preparing cottonstuffed cloth effigies treated with female scent to collect semen from male birds, a technique borrowed from houbara bustard breeding programmes inthe UAE.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">
The desperate measure comes after an unprecedented courtship crisis last monsoon —while the males put up a stellar show, the females not only rejected their advances but also attacked them. With fewer than 900 lesser floricans remaining across India, according to the State of India’s Birds 2023 report, the sexual standoff halts reproduction and pushes the lesser floricans further towards extinction.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">
Since 2020, when the CBC was set up for the lesser floricans, conservationists salvaged eggs at risk from rainwater ingress, agricultural activity, and predators, successfully hatching 16 chicks through artificial incubation. Currently, 12 have reached adulthood: six males and six females. But successful hatching means nothing if the birds won’t breed. 
</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“The males did everything right last season,” Dr Yash Baraiya, the centre’s veterinary doctor, says. “We watched them transform and perform their elaborate courtship dances, but the females became aggressive instead of receptive. They attacked the males and prevented any matingattempts.”</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">
This monsoon, determined not to have another failure, officials crafted a clever decoy: a cotton-stuffed cloth effigy resembling a female, with wood used as needed for structure. Painted to look lifelike and adorned with real feathers, the effigy is treated with authentic female scent collected from the field. The technique, successfully tested on houbara bustards in the UAE, addresses the inexplicable hostility of the females by offering males “a receptive partner”, thus allowing officials tocollect semen. 
</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The challenge is immense, though. “The females are laying unfertilized eggs, which confirms their reproductive readiness. Collecting semen from the timid male birds, though, is delicate work. Any disturbance will cause them to shut down completely. But, if we can successfully collect semen, we can artificially inseminate the females during their fertile window,” Baraiyaadds. 
</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The team is also looking to Rajasthan for guidance.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">
“Rajasthan has achieved remarkable success with artificial insemination in the Great Indian Bustard,” Nilesh Joshi, assistant conservator of forests at Velavadar National Park, says, adding, “We requested the Gujarat govt to arrange for our veterinary team to visit the Sudasri Breeding Centre in Jaisalmer to learn their techniques, which could be adapted for our florican breeding programme.”</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">
Forest officials, though, are not relying on artificial methods alone. They are also planning to introduce wild lesser florican pairs to breed with the captive population, adjusting pairings based on the birds’ interactions. 
</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The lesser florican’s future now depends on blending the artificial with the authentic, whatever measures are necessary to ensure theirsurvival.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 46:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Houbara bustard ]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Houbara bustard ]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Fauna|F]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Fauna|F</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FLORICAN: INDIA</ins>]]</div></td></tr> </table> Jyoti http://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?title=Florican:_India&diff=137006&oldid=prev Pdewan: Created page with " =See also= Florican: India Great Indian Bustard Houbara bustard F" 2025-07-11T14:22:52Z <p>Created page with &quot; =See also= <a href="/ind/index.php/Florican:_India" title="Florican: India">Florican: India </a> <a href="/ind/index.php/Great_Indian_Bustard" title="Great Indian Bustard">Great Indian Bustard</a> <a href="/ind/index.php/Houbara_bustard" title="Houbara bustard">Houbara bustard </a> <a href="/ind/index.php?title=Category:Fauna&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Fauna (page does not exist)">F</a>&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =See also= <br /> [[Florican: India ]]<br /> <br /> [[Great Indian Bustard]]<br /> <br /> [[Houbara bustard ]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Fauna|F]]</div> Pdewan