Congratulatios RG. Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar has been named by the Animal Behavior Society, USA as their 2021 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist, for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Animal Behavior.

Priti, H., Gururaja, K. V., Aravind, N. A., & Ravikanth, G. (2021). Influence of microhabitat on the distribution of tadpoles of three endemic Nyctibatrachus species (Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Biotropica. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12988 

Short title: Microhabitat factors influencing Nyctibatrachus tadpoles 

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Podcast from the Borges Lab (courtesy Zeroing In. The Science Podcast)

Part I:

"Around 200 years back, Darwin set out on his historic voyage around the world, observing and cataloguing the immense diversity the world had to offer, he laid down the foundation for a theory that shook the foundation of biology, the theory of evolution out of which was born the field of evolutionary ecology which tries to unravel the countless puzzles of life nature has to offer.

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Professor Rohini Balakrishnan of CES has been featured in the 'Conversation' section of the latest issue of Journal of Experimental Biology.

In an interview with Kathryn Knight, she describes her journey: how she became a bioacoustician and her experiences as a field biologist.

Link:

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/10/jeb242697/264785/In-t...

Synchrony between individuals or even non-living entities is one of the most striking natural phenomena: from clock pendulums that move in phase to fireflies that flash their light signals together and light up entire trees to crickets, katydids, cicadas and frogs that produce loud, synchronous acoustic choruses. The synchronising calls of species that have been hitherto investigated are however typically simple sound chirps or light flashes that are produced rhythmically at a particular rate.

Gadagkar - 2021 - Experiments in Animal Behaviour - Cutting-Edge Research at Trifling Cost. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. Access full text of this book at: https://www.ias.ac.in/Publications/e-Books/Experiments_in_Animal_Behaviour

In this book, I introduce readers to the study of animal behaviour by describing simple experiments, both old and new, designed to understand how and why animals behave the way they do.