#01 The Thing about Elephants with Dr. Nishant Srinivasaiah

Nishant is a behavioural ecologist who studies Asian elephants in a human-dominated landscape. He has completed his doctoral work from the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore under Prof. Anindya ‘Rana’ Sinha . He is fascinated by the behavioural plasticity of large mammals in their changing environments.

Popular Writing:

1. Globetrotters of the Asian Elephant Society
2. This is Híristor’s story
3. Elephants form unusual all-male groups to survive human landscapes

Journal Articles:

1. The Elephant in the City: The Trialectics of Space in the Rurban Elephants of Southern India
2. Usual Populations, Unusual Individuals: Insights into the Behavior and Management of Asian Elephants in Fragmented Landscapes
3. All-Male Groups in Asian Elephants: A Novel, Adaptive Social Strategy in Increasingly Anthropogenic Landscapes of Southern India

Show notes:

1. Dr. Anindya 'Rana' Sinha
2. What is it like to be a bat? An Essay by Thomas Negal
3. Governing the Commons: A Book by Eleanor Ostrom
4. Ecology Proposes, Behaviour Disposes
5. Postgraduate Programme in Wildlife Biology & Conservation