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Man's best friend - mammoth's worst enemy ? A speculative essay on the role of dogs in Paleoindian colonization and megafaunal extinction
Contributor(s):: Fiedel, Stuart J.
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Tasteless profits and vexed moralities : assessments of the present in rural Rajasthan
Contributor(s):: Gold, Ann Grodzins
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Animal subsistence in the chalcolithic culture of western India (with special reference to Balathal)
Contributor(s):: Thomas, P. K.
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Animals in human societies
Contributor(s):: Manna, Samita
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DNA from early Holocene American dog
Contributor(s):: Tito, Raul Y.
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Holocene faunal material from India with special reference to domesticated animals
Contributor(s):: Badam, G. L.
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The heavenly cow Rupan and the festival of ceremonial torture Gaigoheri: myth, rituals and sacrifice among the people of the Bhil tribe of western India
Contributor(s):: Sahay, Sarita
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Early domestic animals in India and Pakistan
Contributor(s):: Allchin, Frank Raymond, Ucko, Peter J., Dimbleby, G. W.
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Status of research on animal domestication in India and its cultural context
Contributor(s):: Rissman, Paul, Crabtree, P. J., Campana, D. V., Ryan, Kathleen
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Cross-Cultural Agreement in Perception of Animal Beauty: Boid Snakes Viewed by People from Five Continents
Contributor(s):: Frynta, Daniel, Maresova, Jana, Rehakova-Petru, Milada, Skliba, Jan, Sumbera, Radim, Krasa, Antonin
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WITNESS: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming
Contributor(s):: Dave, Naisargi N.
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My Father and Mrs. Roosevelt's Dogs
Contributor(s):: Iseman, Marjorie F.
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Tribal best practices: A Native American horsemanship program for Indian youth
Contributor(s):: Spence, John, Vandiver, Vikki L.
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Behavioral abnormalities in captive nonhuman primates
Contributor(s):: Avanti, Mallapur, Choudhury, B. C.
In this study, we dealt with 11 species of non-human primates across 10 zoos in India. We recorded behaviour as instantaneous scans between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. In the study, we segregated behaviours for analyses into abnormal, undesirable, active, and resting. The 4 types of abnormal behaviour...
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Enclosure design and space utilization by Indian leopards ( Panthera pardus ) in four zoos in Southern India
Contributor(s):: Avanti, Mallapur, Qamar, Qureshi, Ravi, Chellam
Enclosure design and the use of enclosure space influence the activity budget of captive leopards. The study laid out in grids all enclosures on the base map and segregated these grids into 4 zones. Every 5 min, the study recorded the proportion of time spent in these zones with the leopards'...
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Influence of zoo visitor presence on the behavior of captive Indian gaur ( Bos gaurus gaurus ) in a Zoological Park
Contributor(s):: Mahadevan, Sekar, Thangavel, Rajagopal, Govindaraju, Archunan
Visitors to zoos can be a source of potential disturbance and stress to some captive, nonhuman animals in the wild. To determine the influence of visitor presence on captive bison (Bos gaurus gaurus), the study analysed the behaviour of 4 individuals at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, India....
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Social life of captive Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) in Southern India: implications for elephant welfare
Contributor(s):: Varadharajan, Vanitha, Krishnamoorthy, Thiyagesan, Nagarajan, Baskaran
Asian elephants in the wild live in complex social societies; in captivity, however, management often occurs in solitary conditions, especially at the temples and private places of India. To investigate the effect of social isolation, this study assessed the social group sizes and the presence of...
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The role of zoos in the rehabilitation of animals in the circus
Contributor(s):: Gupta, B. K., Bipul, Chakraborty
In 1998, the government of India enforced a ban on performance/exhibition of 5 species of nonhuman animals: (a) lions, (b) tigers, (c) leopards, (d) bears, and (e) monkeys. The Ministry of Environment and Forests gave the responsibility to the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for rehabilitation of...
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Use of enclosure space by captive lion-tailed macaques ( Macaca silenus ) housed in Indian zoos
Contributor(s):: Avanti, Mallapur, Waran, N., Anindya, Sinha
Captive nonhuman animals use enclosure space differentially. Enclosure features strongly influence this. This study recorded both the enclosure space used by 47 captive lion-tailed macaques housed in 13 zoos across India and the behaviour of the macaques. The exhibition of abnormal behaviors,...
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Trevelyan's rhinoceros
Contributor(s):: De Courcy, Catherine
