Sunday, April 30, 2017

Emerging digital threat to wildlife

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 The digital technology, in recent years, has given a huge boost to wildlife research and conservation, but sadly the technology has starte...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

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Hi Guys,                 Due to paucity of time and other imponderables, I am not in a position to blog regularly. I have started a WhatsA...
Monday, August 22, 2016

No updates for some more time

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Hi guys,              Due to personal constraints I am not in a position to post regular updates.  Hope to see you soon. Have a great time...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Taking a break

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Hi Guys,               I am taking a break for 15 days. There wont't be any updates during this period
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Adult female ungulates: The importance getting to know about lambing habitat: Parturition, nursery, and predation sites.

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Desert bighorn sheep lambing habitat: Parturition, nursery, and predation sites Rebekah C. Karsch,James W. Cain,Eric M. Rominger and Eli...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Getting to know how the spatial configuration of residential development affects the foraging behavior and prey habits of top predators

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Spatial characteristics of residential development shift large carnivore prey habits Justine A. Smith,Yiwei Wan and Christopher C. Wilm...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Want protection from malaria? Here is an unlikely recipe. Sleep with a chicken next to your bed

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A study by Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Addis Ababa University, reported in the open access  Malaria Journal , has show...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Scientists urge replacement of animals in antibody production

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The global antibody industry is worth 80 billion dollars and relies heavily on animals to produce the antibodies that are used to detect t...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Urban pigeons might come in handy to detect lead and other toxic compounds in cities

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 A new study of pigeons by Fayme Cai and Rebecca Calisi in New York City shows that levels of lead in the birds track with neighborhoods w...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Using an incentive-based strategy as a complement to command-and-control, community- and norm-based strategies may help achieve greater conservation effectiveness

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Effects of payments for ecosystem services on wildlife habitat recovery Mao-Ning Tuanmu,Andrés Viña,Wu Yang,Xiaodong ChenAshton M. Sh...
Friday, July 15, 2016

American black bears may be able to recognize from photographs things they know in real life

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 Many animals show what is called “picture-object recognition”, in which they respond to pictures and their corresponding real-life object...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

The role of behavioral ecology in improving wildlife conservation and management

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A systematic survey of the integration of animal behavior into conservation Oded Berger-Tal,Daniel T. Blumstein,Scott Carroll,Robert N. ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Latest Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) analysis

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Latest Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) analysis, prepared by TRAFFIC on behalf of Parties to CITES is now available ETIS is a...
Friday, July 08, 2016

‘Coexistence with wildlife'

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As the population of human being burgeons most species of large carnivores and large herbivores depend on being able to occupy human-domin...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

To crack the meaning of monkey calls linguists team up with primatologists

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Linguists teaming up with primatologists have brought the general methods of contemporary linguistics to bear on monkey morphology (pertai...
Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Snow leopards may be more common than previously thought

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Snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ), is the world’s, most mysterious and the least studied big cat. New studies are now breaking fresh g...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Frigate birds: Airborne for months at a time

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A telemetric study of the trajectory and flight strategy of frigate birds( Fregata minor ), led by Henri Weimerskirch of the Centre d'...
Monday, July 04, 2016

New tarantula species named after Gabriel García Márquez

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A new tarantula genus and species, formally called  Kankuamo marquezi , has been discovered in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

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I just finished reading this delightful book by Thomas D. Seeley.  Thomas Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, vividly describes th...