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The Thing About Wildlife

The Thing About Wildlife offers long and insightful conversations with Indians working closest to nature: researchers, educators and conservationists.

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00:38:16

#23 The Thing About Softshell Turtles

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2022/04/10

Ayushi Jain is a National Geographic Photo Ark EDGE Fellow focusing on the endangered Cantor’s giant softshell turtle, which is part of the work she first began during her master's research. Her primary research interests lie in community ecology, behavioural ecology, and evolution of various morphological and physiological traits in reptiles. Ayushi’s project aims to collect baseline ecological data for Cantor’s giant softshell turtle and its habitat at locations in three South Indian states, and

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00:41:06

#22 The Thing About Learning with Birds

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2022/04/03

Misha Bansal works with the Nature Conservation Foundation. After doing a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry and a Master’s in Life Sciences, Misha fell in love with birds through some early research work in the Aravallis in Delhi where she grew up. Ever since, she’s worked with various organizations to facilitate outreach and outdoor learning, most currently with the Early Bird program. Through her work with NCF, she has been working towards helping people build a greater connect with nature. Twitter:

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00:22:25

#21 The Thing About Marine Adventures

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2022/03/27

Tanmay Wagh is a marine ecologist with the Dakshin Foundation who has been working in the Andaman Islands since 2013. Ever since, he’s been a part of various projects related to coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses and dugongs, elasmobranch fisheries and leatherback turtles. At the moment, in addition to being on the outset of his PhD, he is also the Project Coordinator of the Marine Programme as part of the Long Term Ecological Observatories programme of the MOEFCC. Twitter: @TanmayWagh5 Articles: 1

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00:50:08

#20 The Thing About Urban Snakes

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2022/03/20

Chayant Gonsalves is a naturalist, birder, artist and all-round snake enthusiast. After completing his training in wildlife biology and conservation from the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, he has returned to his roots and innate love for urban biodiversity, which he continues to engage with through snake rescues, filmmaking, nature trails and art. Social media: Instagram @chayantgonsalves | Twitter @chayantg Shownotes: 1. Living with snakes: a short YouTube documentary 2

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00:23:20

#19 The Thing About Landscape Avifauna

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2022/03/12

Jobin Varughese is an ecologist with a masters in ecology from Pondicherry University. His initial training as an architect, and later as a landscape architect, now contributes in interesting ways to his work on animal behaviour and movement. With an increasing interest in the natural sciences, and growing experience within the field, Jobin entirely shifted gears towards ecology in 2015, and is now studying the bird communities of the wonderful Shola sky islands for his PhD at IISER Thirupathi with

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00:23:59

#18 The Thing About Getting Started

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2022/03/05

Ishaan Patil is an early career scientist who is not sure what to call himself yet: anthropologist, environmental scientist or social scientist? He studied Life Science at St. Xaviers’ College, Autonomous, Mumbai, and then took a year off to intern close to home at the Centre for Wildlife Studies and the Nature Conservation Foundation. Next, he did his Masters in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Kent, and now works as a research assistant at the James Hutton Institute in Scotland. He

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00:33:53

#17 The Thing About People and Animals

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2022/03/01

Mrunal Ghosalkar, a National Geographic certified educator, began her conservation journey with the Nature Conservation Foundation by studying the occupancy of hornbills through interviews in northeast India. She later started a program called 'Janata Waghoba' in rural Maharashtra with Wildlife Conservation Society - India to build awareness about leopards in human-dominated landscapes across various stakeholders. She has also worked as a project coordinator for the wild shale EE program at the

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00:00:38

The Thing About Upload Delays

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2022/02/27

Next full episode will be out tomorrow!

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00:25:20

#16 The Thing About Personalities

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2022/02/20

Taniya Gill is a doctoral candidate from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delhi. She began her journey into understanding animal personalities with the rhesus macaques of Shimla during her M.Phil, which has now led her to study the individual unique behaviours and mannerisms of this species in the forest fringes of Delhi. She is also a talented guitarist, and is responsible for both today's stories and music! Twitter: @taniyagill2 Instagram: @t.an.i.ya_ Journal articles: 1. Impact

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00:26:08

#15 The Thing About Sleeping Lizards

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2022/02/13

Nitya Prakash Mohanty is a herpetologist who has spent the last decade studying frogs and lizards, asking interesting questions about their patterns of invasion and sleep! He began his foray into wildlife with a master’s from the Wildlife Institute of India, wherein he studied spotted deer and frogs in the Andaman Islands. After a PhD and a postdoc in South Africa, Nitya is currently doing more post-doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Twitter: @NityaPM The new study

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00:19:48

#14 The Thing About Pulpuli

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2022/02/06

Titir Debnath has been engaging with wildlife in many ways since she was in school, and stayed firmly on course through the years that followed. Now, after finishing her masters in environmental science and wildlife biology, she is learning as much as she can about the field of primatology by working on projects with different macaque species in India. You can find her on Instagram at @debnathtitir where she often expresses the lighter side of wildlife through memes and reels! Select articles in

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00:25:05

#13 The Thing About Forest Fires

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2022/01/30

Neeharika Gogoi is a PhD scholar with Dr. Narayan Sharma in the Department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences, Cotton University.. Her work focusses on the gorgeous capped langur found close to where she lives in Assam, where she studies how their diet varies across wild and human-occupied areas. Select popular articles: 1. Why do we need to save Dehing Patkai? 2. Pig-tailed Macaque: Elusive Monkey of the Deep Forest Journal Article: 1. Size matters! The largest wild stump-tailed

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00:01:10

#00 The Thing About Introductions: Season-2

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2022/01/22

Welcome to Season-2 and an all-new segment on the podcast: The Thing About Wildlife - In a Nutshell. Here, I talk to researchers, students, educators, artists, field assistants and wildlife enthusiasts who bring you stories from their time in nature. Episode 1 will be up next week!

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01:08:00

#12 The Thing about Reflection [end of Season 01]

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2021/09/11

Dear listener, On this last episode of Season One, we revisit our motivation for starting The Thing About Wildlife and reflect on highlights from our guests and what we learnt from them. We'll be back with Season Two very soon but until then, we'll keep you entertained with occasional snippets -- stay tuned! We're also keen on hearing from you: all feedback - suggestions, compliments and criticism - is welcome! You can DM us on Twitter @PodcastTaw or Instagram @thethingaboutwildlife, or email us at

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01:17:28

#11 The Thing about Turtles with Nupur Kale

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2021/09/04

Nupur Kale is a Project Associate with the Marine Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society - India. Her main research interests are sea turtle biology and conservation, and by extension all things marine. She is also interested in working with communities to ensure effective conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Popular articles: The blues and greens of Lakshwadweep Conservation Alliances Journal articles: The olive currency: a comparative account of community based ecotourism

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01:37:23

#10 The Thing about Plants with Krishna Anujan

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2021/08/28

Krishna Anujan is a community ecologist and nature enthusiast, and she's is studying the effect of biodiversity on tropical forest functioning in the Andaman Islands for her PhD at Columbia University. She regularly communicates science to the public through popular articles in English and Malayalam. Twitter: @KrishnaAnujan Popular Writing: What does the climate crisis mean for the Andaman Islands? Ecology and Natural History of the Andaman Islands (8-part series) Foraging Food: Eating Wild in

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01:22:43

#09 The Thing About Rivers with Tarun Nair

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2021/08/23

Tarun Nair is a herpetologist and conservationist associated with the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore (but views expressed on this podcast are personal). He has worked extensively in river systems across North India, rallying around the enigmatic Gharial. Key popular articles: Crocodile conservation doesn’t need a straw-man Saltwater crocodiles in the Andaman and Nicobar have a PR problem Of Government, God and Gharial: the ecological pogrom in Chambal's

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00:59:12

#08 The Thing about Forests with Dr. Meghna Agarwala

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2021/08/14

Dr Meghna Agarwala is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. Her work focuses on the intersection of forest ecology, conservation biology and livelihoods of local people. Dr Agarwala is taking PhD students this year (2021-2022 admit)! Do write to her (meghna.agarwala@ashoka.edu.in) if you’re interested. Key Journal Articles: Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests Untangling impact of de jure and de facto community-based management of

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00:55:49

#07 The Thing About Nature Education with Vena Kapoor

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2021/08/07

Welcome back to the second of our two-part chat with Vena! Vena Kapoor works with the Education and Public Engagement Programme at Nature Conservation Foundation in Bengaluru. She is interested in ecology, nature education research and outreach, looking for and documenting spiders and other 6 and 8 legged creatures. Twitter: @venadavenu Popular Writing: Spiders: the weavers and stalkers among us Nature Underfoot: Wild Flora and Fauna on City Pavements and Waysides Life on the Vertical:

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01:27:31

#06 The Thing about Spiders with Vena Kapoor

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2021/07/31

Vena Kapoor works with the Education and Public Engagement Programme at Nature Conservation Foundation in Bengaluru. She is interested in ecology, nature education research and outreach, looking for and documenting spiders and other 6 and 8 legged creatures. Twitter: @venadavenu Popular Writing: Spiders: the weavers and stalkers among us Nature Underfoot: Wild Flora and Fauna on City Pavements and Waysides Life on the Vertical: Exploring Nature on City Walls Vena's 6 favourite species of

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