Vol2, Issue2 - Journal of Wildlife Science (JWLS)

Volume 2, Issue 2 - June 2025

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Published on 18th June 2025

DOI- https://doi.org/10.63033/JWLS.WZIZ3550

Arrival, rise, fall, and again rise of the Asiatic lion Panthera leo leo in India

Hari Shanker Singh

Many animal populations have shifted their distribution and emigrated to new areas in response to climate change, and lions in India have had a similar story. This commentary examines historical records, environmental barriers, climate change in the region of Indus-Sarasvati rivers that created conditions for lions’s entry in India. Recovery of artefacts of several wild animals and near absence of lion in these ancient artworks at any site of the Indus-Sarasvati...

Annual migration: Strategy for twice-a-year long-distance travel in obligate latitudinal nocturnal avian migrants

Vatsala Tripathi, Sanjay Kumar Bhardwaj, Vinod Kumar

Latitudinal avian migrants show comprehensive changes at multiple levels in response to the prevailing environmental conditions, for example, photoperiod, temperature and food availability. These changes aid in decisions when birds begin their migratory flights. Twice-a-year, changes in identifiable...

Living on the Edge: Assessing spatio-temporal dynamics of Human-Elephant Interactions in Udalguri, Assam

Richard Sangma, Arif Ahmad , Ramesh K. Pandey, Dheeraj Mittal, Aju Mathew George, Deepankar Barman, Rishi Basumatary, Parag Nigam, Bilal Habib, Anukul Nath

Landscape transformation due to expanding agriculture and infrastructure in Asia has led to extensive habitat loss and fragmentation for Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), intensifying human-elephant conflict (HEC) across their range. India, home to nearly 60% of the global...

First photographic evidence of Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis Osbeck, 1765) from the tidal river Rupnarayan, in Bardhhman district, West Bengal, India

Dona George, Gargi Roy Chowdhury, Kanad Roy, Pranay Bhatnagar, Shovana Ray, Qamar Qureshi & Vishnupriya Kolipakam

Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) of the genus Sousa (subfamily Delphininae) also known as the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (IPHD from hereon), is classified as 'Vulnerable' (VU) according to the IUCN Red List (Jefferson et al. 2017)...

First record of a clouded leopard predating on a Bengal slow loris

Rameshwar Ghade, Azam Khan, Tribhuwan Singh, Daniel Miranda, Govindhan Veeraswami Gopi, Bilal Habib

We present the first photographic record of a mainland clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa predating on a Bengal slow loris Nycticebus bengalensis in Dehing Patkai National Park, Assam, India. This finding, made through camera trapping, contributes to our understanding of predatory behavior and diet...

First report of albino rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta (Zimmerman, 1780) from Barak Valley, Assam

Bishal Sonar, Biswajit Singh, Nazimur Rahman Talukdar, Parthankar Choudhury

On 22nd February 2022 at 10:30 hours, we recorded an albino rhesus macaque infant at Ramkrishna Nagar town (24°50’31.5708″N, 92°23’11.6916″E) in Sribhumi district of Assam (Figure 1). The locals knew the individual by its ethereal appearance and bestowed the name ‘Pandur’ (meaning pale, colorless) upon this unique and colorless primate...

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