My first research paper just got published!!!!! with Vivek Philip Cyriac Vaishnavi Apte Pranav Joshi Biological Journal of the Linnean Society "Barking up the wrong frog: global prevalence of misdirected amplexus in anuran amphibians" We asked - when, where and which (ones) make erroneous mating attemps?

Issue 20 of HerpBuzz is now online! A short 🧵 on what’s inside:

Photography is a fun activity! 😂 Prathamesh Amberkar

Updates in Indian Herpetology from August! HerpClub herpclub.org/herpbuzz?fbcli…

More the merrier? influence of mango orchards on the composition of the reptile communities of the lateritic plateaus, Maharashtra, India - Amberkar - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

My MSc research is now available as full-text. Do give it a read!

The inaugural Indian Wildlife Ecology Conference (14–16 June 2024) National Centre for Biological Sciences brought together wildlife ecologists from all over the country. Co-conveners Ajith Kumar & Jayashree Ratnam talk about the meeting's impact and future plans. Read here: bit.ly/4gY7yhD

#Hamadryad has a long and very interesting history. And we're now opening it up to the rest of the world! If you have an interesting natural History note on reptiles and amphibians that you'd like to share, do send your manuscripts! It's a free peer reviewed journal that is

In Great Nicobar the very institutions that facilitated Enviro and wildlife clearances slated to get 100s of crores for wildlife and biodiversity monitoring and mitigation studies: in the HT today

(1/4) New publication alert!!! Certain species of snakes have prominent heat-sensing pits on their face, like this gorgeous Green tree python! But under what circumstances do these pits evolve? And what benefit do they provide? Photo credit - Damien Esquerre

📢New preprint out!!🦎 We delineate the distribution of the White-striped viper gecko, Hemidactylus albofasciatus using ecological niche modelling, further carrying out extensive field sampling across all the suitable localities. S

I'm thrilled to share the first publication of my PhD! In this work, we attempted to understand the biogeographic origins, dispersal routes, and major diversification centres of the speciose and widespread house geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus) Cont 1/4