Fragmentation Of Habitat Is Causing Inbreeding Among Indian Tigers And That Could Be Disastrous indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While Indian tigers have the highest genetic variation compared to other subspecies of the feline across the world, their populations continue to be fragmented by loss of habitat, leading to inbreeding and potential loss of this diversity, says a new study that may inform conservation strategies. As human population started expanding, so also their signatures on the land. We know that some of these signatures would result in disrupting the ability of tigers to move, Uma Ramakrishnan, co-author of the research, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, told PTI. According to Ramakrishnan, molecular ecologist and assistant professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, this habitat loss from human activities leads to tigers being hemmed into their own protected area.
Why are Indians so preoccupied with what Nagas eat, whether it is dogs, bats or falcons?
Debates about Naga food overlook the perspective that situates it in relation to other aspects of their cultural and political life. Feb 22, 2021 · 11:30 am A woman prepares her stall with containers of fresh water insects and frogs for sale at a food market in Dimapur, Nagaland. | Caisii Mao/AFP
All of humanity emerged from a rock on my family’s rice field. This is what I was taught. The field, though small, boasts a perennial spring which comes out from below the rock that is the source of all of humanity, keeping the field permanently flooded and amenable for growing rice. The first time I descended down the stone terraces from the village to the field, my aunties and uncles showed me where to place my hands on the rock to feel the polished grooves where, they say, the first people stepped and climbed up into the world, in what is now our small rice field.
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