SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 97

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Which national park in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is home to species like Megapode, crab-eating Macaque, Nicobar Pigeon, and Giant Robber Crab?

(a)Campbell Bay National Park
(b)Raimona National Park
(c)Mouling National Park
(d)Papikonda National Park

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Campbell Bay National Park stands on Great Nicobar, the southernmost island of the group, and together with Galathea National Park forms the core of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve.

Every species named in the question is a Nicobar animal — the Nicobar megapode, the crab-eating macaque, the Nicobar pigeon and the giant robber crab. None of them is found in a mainland Indian park.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Raimona National Park — Raimona is in Assam, in the Bodoland country bordering Bhutan, and is known for the golden langur. It is a mainland forest, not an island park.
(c)
Mouling National Park — Mouling lies in Arunachal Pradesh, in the Upper Siang country of the eastern Himalaya. Its fauna is Himalayan, so no megapode and no robber crab.
(d)
Papikonda National Park — Papikonda is in Andhra Pradesh, on the Godavari in the Papikonda hills. A peninsular river park cannot hold Nicobar endemics.

Concept

Protected-area questions are built as place plus signature species. Learn one unmistakable animal for each park and the option set collapses.

The Nicobar signature is easy to hold. The Nicobar megapode incubates its eggs in a mound of sand and rotting vegetation instead of sitting on them, and it is found nowhere else in India.

Anything naming it points at the Nicobars — and Campbell Bay is the Nicobar park in this option set.

The Andaman group and the Nicobar group are one Union Territory but two distinct island chains with different endemic species. A question that names megapode or robber crab is pointing at the Nicobars specifically.

Key facts

Campbell Bay National Park is on Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Campbell Bay and Galathea National Parks lie within the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve.
The Nicobar megapode and the giant robber crab, also called the coconut crab, are Nicobar species and are not found on the Indian mainland.
Raimona National Park is in Assam, Mouling National Park in Arunachal Pradesh and Papikonda National Park in Andhra Pradesh.

Study next

National parks of the Andaman and Nicobar IslandsIndia's biosphere reserves and the states they lie inRecently notified national parks such as Raimona in Assam

Common traps

Picking a park whose name merely sounds coastal or tribal instead of recalling where it is
Treating the Andamans and the Nicobars as one faunal zone

Protected areas are asked by pairing them with a state or with a species and leaving one half blank.

The state form appears at 24 Sep 2024, 16:00, General Awareness Q.6, keyed to Uttar Pradesh for the Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary.

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