Editor: Natarajan Singaravelan

Rare Animals of India

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Library License: US $140
ISBN: 978-1-60805-629-3 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-485-5 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2013
DOI: 10.2174/97816080548551130101

Introduction

Rare Animals of India is a unique book that presents the biological and ecological accounts of the least known animal species of India in one comprehensive volume. The book gives comprehensive ecological accounts supported with data tables on rare and specific animal species of India and discusses the basis for their rarity for their conservation. It includes information about the Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) the endangered Forest Owlet (Heteroglaux blewitti), the Bengal Marsh Mongoose, Snow Leopards and many more. Readers are guided through several chapters each detailing a specific kind of animal, some of them being on the list of endangered species. With over 150 color illustrations, this intriguing reference will be of immense interest to zoologists, ecologists, naturalists and conservation biologists as well as general readers across the world interested in studying such rare or least known animals found in the length and breadth of the Indian region.

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Contributors

Editor(s):
Natarajan Singaravelan
Bommanampalayam
Bharathiyar University (Post)
India




Contributor(s):
Mohammed A. Akbarsha
Department of Animal Sciences
Bharatidasan University
Tiruchirappally
Tamil Nadu, 620024
India


Reston S. Beyo
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore , 560012
India


Sumaithangi R. Chandramouli
Department of Zoology
Department of ZoologyDivision of Wildlife Biology
A.V.C. College
Mannampandal
Tamil Nadu
India


Ashlata Devi
Department of Environmental Science
Tezpur University
NAPAM
Tezpur, Dist. Sonitpur
Assam
India


Lekha Divya
School of Biological Sciences
Central University of Kerala
Padannakkad
Kasaragod, Kerala
India


Sumaithangi R. Ganesh
Department of Zoology
Department of ZoologyDivision of Wildlife Biology
A.V.C. College
Mannampandal
Tamil Nadu
India


Atul Kumar Gupta
PCCF & Chief Wildlife Warden
Member-Secretary, Tripura Biodiversity Board
Aranya Bhawan, Gorkha Basti, P. O. Kunjaban
Agartala 799 006
Tripura (W)
india


Girish Jathar
Watershed Organization Trust
2nd Floor, The Forum, Padmavati Corner
Pune-Satara Road
Pune
Mahaashtra, 411037
India


Amita Kanaujia
Department of Zoology
University of Lucknow
Lucknow-226007
Uttar Pradesh
India


Ramachandran Kotharambath
Department of Zoology
Government College Chittur
Palakkad
Kerala, 678104
India


Awadhesh Kumar
Department of Forestry
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (Deemed University)
Nirjuli-791109 (Itanagar)
Arunachal Pradesh
India


Sonika Kushwaha
Department of Zoology
University of Lucknow
Lucknow-226007
Uttar Pradesh
India


Gopinathan Maheswaran
Zoological Survey of India
Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre
Senki Valley Itanagar-791113
, Arunachal Pradesh
India


Jayanta K. Mallick
Wildlife Wing (Headquarters)
Forest Directorate, Government of West Bengal
Bikash Bhawan, North Block
3rd floor, Salt Lake City
Kolkata 700091
India


Ganapathy Marimuthu
Department of Animal Behaviour & Physiology
School of Biological Sciences
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai
Tamil Nadu
India


Oommen V. Oommen
Kerala State Biodiversity Board
Pallimuku, Thiruvananthapuram 695024
Kerala
India


Asad Rahmani
Bombay Natural History Society
Hornbill House, Salim Ali Chowk
Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Mumbai - 400023
India


V.V. Robin
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560012
India


Prasanta K. Saikia
Animal Ecology & Wildlife Biology Lab
Department of Zoology
Gauhati University
Assam
India


Kuladip Sarma
Department of Forestry
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (Deemed University)
Nirjuli-791109 (Itanagar)
Arunachal Pradesh
India


Koustubh Sharma
Snow Leopard Trust, 4649
Sunnyside Avenue
North Suite #325
Seattle
WA 98103
USA


Natarajan Singaravelan
Thondamuthur Main Road
Bommanampalayam
Bharathiyar University (Post)
Coimbatore-46
Tamil Nadu
India


Anindya Sinha
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560012
India


Juliet Vanitharani
Department of Zoology
Sarah Tucker College
Tirunelveli – 627 007
Tamil Nadu
India


P.D. Venugopal
Department of Entomology
University of Maryland
4124 Plant Sciences Building
College Park
MD 20742-4454
USA




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