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Biodiversity and Conservation · Question 84

AIPMT 2003MCQMedium📈 Topic in 62% papers+4−1
1

Which endangered animal is the source of the world's finest, lightest, warmest and most expensive wool - the shahtoosh ?

  1. Kashmiri goat
  2. Chiru
  3. Nilgai
  4. Cheetal

Answer

(2) Chiru

Solution

Shahtoosh wool is obtained from the fine underfur of the chiru (Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii), which lives on the cold Tibetan plateau.

⇒ The animal has to be killed to obtain the wool, so over-exploitation for the shahtoosh trade made the chiru endangered; trade in shahtoosh is now banned.

⇒ Pashmina (not shahtoosh) comes from the Kashmiri goat.

Answer: (2)

AIPMT 2003

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2

Wildlife is continuously decreasing. What is the main reason of this ?

  1. Cutting down of forest
  2. Predation
  3. Hunting
  4. Destruction of habitat
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3

Indri-indri lemur is found in:

  1. Sri Lanka
  2. Mauritius
  3. Madagascar
  4. India
AIPMT 2000
4

Viable material of endangered species can be preserved by:

  1. Gene library
  2. Gene bank
  3. Gene pool
  4. Herbarium
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