Anindya Sinha

Professor

School

School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Programme

Animal Behaviour and Cognition

Phone

Tel: 080-2218 5117 Fax: 080-2218 5028

E-mail

anindya.rana.sinha@gmail.com

Room no

S 22

Department

Faculty

Joined NIAS on 15th November 1996. Dean, Academic Affairs; 18th February 2013-Current. Most significant research contribution: Was responsible for the discovery of a new species of primate, the Arunachal macaque, in Northeastern India, although principal contributions have been in understanding the structure and evolution of the primate mind.

Dr. Anindya Sinha's wide-ranging research interests in  behavioural ecology and cognitive psychology of primates, animal molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation biology and the philosophy of biology. He has a master's degree in botany, a doctorate in molecular biology, and has earlier worked on the biochemical genetics of yeast, the social biology of wasps, and the classical genetics of human disease. He is also interested in biology education and the popularisation of science, and has lectured extensively in a variety of educational and research institutions

Publications

‘The devil is in the detail’: Peer-review of the wildlife conservation plan by the Wildlife Institute of India for the Etalin hydropower project, Dibang valley.

The Elephant in the Room: Methods, challenges and concerns in the monitoring of Asian elephant populations

Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of the Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India

Mental health ecologies and urban wellbeing

Elephants on the Move

Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interactions

Affective ethnographies of animal lives

Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human-Elephant Interactions

Living with elephants: Exploring the nature and cause of human-elephant conflict in India

The Monkey in the Towns Commons: A Natural History of the Indian Bonnet Macaque

Changing ecologies, shifting behaviours: Behavioural responses of a rainforest primate, the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, to a matrix of anthropogenic habitats in southern India

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self

Silent words: Semiotic assemblages as bridges to the semantics-pragmatics divide in communication.

Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India

The devil is in the detail'

The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance.

Macaca munzala.

The elephant in the city: The trialectics of space in the rurban elephants of southern India.

Elephants on the move: Implications for human-elephant interaction.

Animating the urban: An ethological and geographical conversation.

Gestural communication of wild bonnet macaques in the Bandipur National Park, southern India.

Sharing from the same bowl: Resource partitioning between sympatric macaque species in the Western Himalaya, India.

Nonhuman lifeworlds in urban India.

Human-captive elephant relationships in Kerala: Historical perspectives and current scenarios.

Inter-ecosystem variation in the food-collection behaviour of climbing perch Anabas testudineus, a freshwater fish.

Can living with an alien invasive fish, Tilapia, influence the shoaling decision-making and exploratory behaviour of an air-breathing freshwater fish, the climbing perch?

All-male groups in Asian elephants: A novel, adaptive social strategy in increasingly anthropogenic landscapes of southern India.

An action plan for the control of commensal, non-human primates in public places

Ramesh Maheshwari (1940–2019).

Affective ethnographies of animal lives

The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance.

The Rurban elephant: Behavioural ecology of Asian elephants in response to large-scale landuse change in a human-dominated landscape in peri-urban southern India

	Anindya Sinha, Anmol Chowdhury co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Affective ethnographies of animal lives In: A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies edited by Alice Hovorka, Sandra McCubbin, Lauren Van Patter. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 129-146. 2021
	Anindya Sinha, Anmol Chowdhury, Nitesh S Anchan co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Affective ethnographies of animal lives A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies, January 2021 2021
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Silent words: Semiotic assemblages as bridges to the semantics-pragmatics divide in communication. In: Mind and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Sharing. Essays in Honour of Prof Amita Chatterjee Volume 1 edited by Kuntala Bhattacharya, Madhucchanda Sen and Smita Sirker. New Delhi: D K Printworld, pp. 371-389 2019

	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The Rurban elephant: Behavioural ecology of Asian elephants in response to large-scale landuse change in a human-dominated landscape in peri-urban southern India New Forms of Urban Agriculture: An Urban Ecology Perspective (Eds. Diehl J A and Kaur H). Springer Nature, Singapore, March 2022 pp. 289-310 28 March 2022 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Sayan Banerjee co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition ‘The devil is in the detail’: Peer-review of the wildlife conservation plan by the Wildlife Institute of India for the Etalin hydropower project, Dibang valley. Zoo’s Print, May 2020 1 May 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Michael A Huffman co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance. Global Ecology and Conservation 22: e00985. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Maan Barua co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Nonhuman lifeworlds in urban India. The Philosopher 108: 22-27. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance. Global Ecology and Conservation 22: e00985. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The devil is in the detail' Peer-review of the Wildlife Conservation Plan by the Wildlife Institute of India for the Etalin Hydropower Project, Dibang Valley, Zoo’s Print 35(5): 1-78. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India Current Science 119(6): 1042-1045. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Shreedhar Vijayakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Human-captive elephant relationships in Kerala: Historical perspectives and current scenarios. Gajah 50: 29-35. 1 January 2019 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Sharing from the same bowl: Resource partitioning between sympatric macaque species in the Western Himalaya, India. International Journal of Primatology 40: 356-373. 1 January 2019 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Shreejata Gupta co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Gestural communication of wild bonnet macaques in the Bandipur National Park, southern India. Behavioural Processes 168: 103956. 1 January 2019 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha, Maan Barua co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Animating the urban: An ethological and geographical conversation. Social and Cultural Geography 20: 1160-1180. 1 January 2019 Journal Articles

	Anindya Sinha, Nishant M Srinivasaiah co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The elephant in the city: The trialectics of space in the rurban elephants of southern India. Position Paper, Spaces of Living in Transformation—In Times of Uncertainty, Urban Environments Initiative, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany 2021
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Macaca munzala. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T136569A17948833. 2020
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition An action plan for the control of commensal, non-human primates in public places Zoo’s Print 34: 1-13. 2019
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition All-male groups in Asian elephants: A novel, adaptive social strategy in increasingly anthropogenic landscapes of southern India. Scientific Reports 9: 8678. 2019
	Anindya Sinha, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Can living with an alien invasive fish, Tilapia, influence the shoaling decision-making and exploratory behaviour of an air-breathing freshwater fish, the climbing perch? bioRxiv 839563. 2019
	Anindya Sinha, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Inter-ecosystem variation in the food-collection behaviour of climbing perch Anabas testudineus, a freshwater fish. bioRxiv 573600 2019
	Anindya Sinha The Monkey in the Towns Commons: A Natural History of the Indian Bonnet Macaque Reports, 2001, (NIAS Report No. R2-2001) 2001

	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human-Elephant Interactions Book chapter: The Crisis of Climate Change: Weather Report, Routledge India, New Delhi, 2021 1 September 2021
	Anindya Sinha co-edited Animal Behaviour and Cognition Elephants on the Move The Crisis of Climate Change, September 2021 1 September 2021
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Mental health ecologies and urban wellbeing Health & Place, May 2021 1 May 2021
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The Elephant in the Room: Methods, challenges and concerns in the monitoring of Asian elephant populations Gajah 52, October 2020 1 October 2020
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of the Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India Current Science, September 2020 28 September 2020
	Ashni Kumar Dhawale, Anindya Sinha, M Ananda Kumar Animal Behaviour and Cognition Changing ecologies, shifting behaviours: Behavioural responses of a rainforest primate, the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, to a matrix of anthropogenic habitats in southern India PLoS One, September 2020 1 September 2020
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interactions India International Centre (IIC) Quarterly, 2020 1 March 2020
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Elephants on the move: Implications for human-elephant interaction. IIC Quarterly 46: 100-113. 1 January 2020 Op-Eds and Comments
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Ramesh Maheshwari (1940–2019). Current Science 117: 524-525. 1 January 2019 NIAS Comments
	Sangeetha Menon, Anindya Sinha, Prof. B V Sreekantan Consciousness Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self Springer NATURE 2014 1 January 2014
	Anindya Sinha, Sindhu Radhakrishna Living with elephants: Exploring the nature and cause of human-elephant conflict in India NIAS Backgrounder No. B2-2010 28 December 2010 Backgrounders