Our paper on the novel nesting behaviour of giant squirrels is published in Global Ecology and Conservation. Exotic timber plantations as nesting sites for the endemic Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica in the Palani Hills, Western Ghats, India. Read it here.

Read our paper "Evolution of burrowing and associated behavioral traits in Lagomorphs", posted on BioRxiv.

Swati Udayraj, a PhD student at the Sciurid Lab, successfully defends her PhD dissertation titled "Understanding squirrel distribution in response to anthropogenic change in South Asia".

Read our collaborative paper on sustainable food production in Andhra Pradesh, published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems "Integrated land systems for sustainable food production and biodiversity conservation in the semi-arid to moist tropics: stakeholder perspectives from Andhra Pradesh, India"

Nivetha Murugesan defends her dissertation titled "Evolution of color and pattern traits in squirrels: an integrative approach".

Harsha Kumar defends his dissertation titled "Adaptations of pikas to alpine stressors of the Tibetan Marginal Mountains".

Our paper on haying behaviour in pikas is published in the Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmamma...

The lab attends IWEC 2024, where multiple people present their work. IISER Tirupati researchers and alumni represent! More here https://x.com/swatiudayraj/sta...

Read our database methods paper and Version 1 of the Squirrels of South Asia database on the GBIF platform.

Swati Udayraj wins 1st Prize for Most Observations by a Woman Observer with iNaturalist. India's Nature-Monsoon Beauty 2023 powered by iNaturalist.

In the den of marmots, by Janaki Lenin. The Hindu dated 13th November, 2021

Publication: Scientific contributions and learning experiences of citizen volunteers with a small cat project in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, India.

Harsha Kumar and colleagues from IISER Tirupati publish a new butterfly record (Alida Angle) for Tirupati.