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.

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

The macaque connection: Cooperation and conflict between humans and macaques

Affective ethnographies of animal lives

Primates in Urban Settings

Nature and culture in the wild: Biological foundations of behavioural traditions in non-human primates

Playing God or Being Human? Scientific and Ethical Perspectives in the Cloning of Human Beings

Munzalas in the mist: The discovery of the Arunachal macaque

A world survey of husbandry practices for Lion-tailed macaques: Macaca silenus in captivity

Of mice and men: Ethical issues in animal exploitation

Life-history traits: ecological adaptations or phylogenetic relics?

Other Societies: Social Organisation and Behaviour in Primates

Cognitive Ethology: A Behavioural Lens into the Primate Mind

Beyond Food for Thought: Tool Use and Manufacture by Wild Nonhuman Primates in Nonforaging Contexts

The Day of the Macaque

Possible Self-Awareness in Wild Adélie Penguins Pygoscelis adeliae

Blowing the lid off! Bottle-directed, extractive foraging strategies in synurbic bonnet macaques Macaca radiata in southern India

Far from home: The synurbisation of a rainforest-evolved primate, the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, and its recent adaptations to anthropogenic habitats in southern India

Reading the elephant: Affective conceptualisations of the wild Asian elephants

Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Affective and Emotive Ethnographies of Human–Macaque Lifeworlds

Yes, we have the power to end TB!

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?

Winter foraging ecology of stump-tailed macaques Macaca arctoides in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Assam, India

Political and affective ecologies of human–elephant relations: A gendered perspective.

The outliers: An interplay of space, knowledge, and capabilities in defining human–elephant relations in rurban southern India

Nāgādhyakshaçaritha: Elephant–mahout relationships in two communities of southern India.

Structure and Functions of Gesture Sequences in Wild Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata)

Engendered Primatology: of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists

Twinning in wild, endangered lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus in the Anamalai Hills of the Western Ghats, India

	Sangeetha Menon, Anindya Sinha, B V Sreekantan Consciousness Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self Springer NATURE 2014 2014
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The macaque connection: Cooperation and conflict between humans and macaques New York: Springer Verlag 2013

	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Engendered Primatology: of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists Co-Authored with Sayan Banerjee. In: Gender and Animals in History, Yearbook of Women's History 42, Guest Editor: Sandra Swart, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2024, Pages: 137–156. 2024
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Nāgādhyakshaçaritha: Elephant–mahout relationships in two communities of southern India. Co-Authored with Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan, Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Eds. Láine N, Rahmat K and Kiel P). IRD Editions, Montpellier, France, pp. 67-81. 2023
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition The outliers: An interplay of space, knowledge, and capabilities in defining human–elephant relations in rurban southern India Co-Authored with Nishant M Srinivasaiah, Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Eds. Láine N, Rahmat K and Kiel P). IRD Editions, Montpellier, France, pp. 67-81. 2023
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Political and affective ecologies of human–elephant relations: A gendered perspective. Co-Authored with Sayan Banerjee. Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Eds. Láine N, Rahmat K and Kiel P). IRD Editions, Montpellier, France, pp. 29-47. 2023
	Sayan Banerjee, Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Reading the elephant: Affective conceptualisations of the wild Asian elephants Ecological entanglements: Affect, embodiment and ethics of care (eds.Ambika Aiyadurai, Arko Chattopadhyay, Nishaant Choksi) Orient Black Swan, 2023
	Anindya Sinha, Maan Barua Animal Behaviour and Cognition Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Affective and Emotive Ethnographies of Human–Macaque Lifeworlds Co-authored with Ishika Ramakrishna and Ajith Kumar In: Ecological entanglements: Affect, embodiment and ethics of care (eds.Ambika Aiyadurai, Arko Chattopadhyay, Nishaant Choksi) Orient Black Swan, 17 April 2023 pp.15-40 2023
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition The Day of the Macaque In: At the Feet of Living Things: Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India (eds. A Datta, R Arthur and T R Shankar Raman), HarperCollins Publishers India 2022
	Anindya Sinha 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 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 Primates in Urban Settings In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, Wiley and Sons Inc, pp.1-8 2017
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Nature and culture in the wild: Biological foundations of behavioural traditions in non-human primates In: Nature and Culture. Roddam Narasimha and Sangeetha Menon (Eds). New Delhi: PHISPC and CSC, pp. 367–389 2011
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Inequality and Human Development Munzalas in the mist: The discovery of the Arunachal macaque In: Voices in the wilderness: Contemporary wildlife writings, Voices in the wilderness: Contemporary wildlife writings, Prerna Singh Bindra (Ed). New Delhi: Rupa and Company, pp. 75–82 2010
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Inequality and Human Development Playing God or Being Human? Scientific and Ethical Perspectives in the Cloning of Human Beings In: History of Science and Philosophy of Science: A Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Ideas in Science, Pradip Kumar Sengupta (Ed). New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 473-480 2010
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Inequality and Human Development A world survey of husbandry practices for Lion-tailed macaques: Macaca silenus in captivity In: International Zoo Yearbook, International Zoo Yearbook, Blackwell Synergy, pp. 166–175 2007
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Inequality and Human Development Of mice and men: Ethical issues in animal exploitation In: Self, Society and Science: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives, DP Chattopadhyay (Ed). New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations 2005
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Life-history traits: ecological adaptations or phylogenetic relics? In: Macaque Societies: A Model for the Study of Social Organization, Macaque Societies: A Model for the Study of Social Organization, Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh, and Werner Kaumanns (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 80–83 2004
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Other Societies: Social Organisation and Behaviour in Primates In: Lectures on Recent Trends in Ethology and Behavioural Sciences, John K Thomas (Ed). Irinjalakuda: Department of Zoology, Christ College, pp. 104–117 2003
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Inequality and Human Development Cognitive Ethology: A Behavioural Lens into the Primate Mind In: Lectures on Recent Trends in Ethology and Behavioural Sciences, John K Thomas (Ed). Irinjalakuda: Department of Zoology, Christ College, pp. 18–28 2003

	Anindya Sinha Twinning in wild, endangered lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus in the Anamalai Hills of the Western Ghats, India Co-Authored with Ashni Kumar Dhawale. Primates (2024) 13 April 2024 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Structure and Functions of Gesture Sequences in Wild Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata) Co-Authored with Shreejata Gupta. BioRxiv Preprint 18 March 2024 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Winter foraging ecology of stump-tailed macaques Macaca arctoides in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Assam, India Co-Authored with Swetha Stotrabhashyam, Narayan Sharma and Ajith Kumar. Journal of Biosciences, Volume 48, Article 30. 11 August 2023 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Yes, we have the power to end TB! Co-Authored With Nibedita Rath, Chaitali Nikam, Stephanie Seidel and Vijay Arora.Indian Journal of Tuberculosis 28 June 2023 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Blowing the lid off! Bottle-directed, extractive foraging strategies in synurbic bonnet macaques Macaca radiata in southern India Co-authored with Arijit Pal, Jean-Baptiste Leca. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, 9 December 2022 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Possible Self-Awareness in Wild Adélie Penguins Pygoscelis adeliae Co-authored with Prabir G Dastidar and Azizuddin Khan. BioRxiv 5 November 2022 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Beyond Food for Thought: Tool Use and Manufacture by Wild Nonhuman Primates in Nonforaging Contexts Co-authored with Arijit Pal, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 47, Article No 101201 24 August 2022 Journal Articles
	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 co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Far from home: The synurbisation of a rainforest-evolved primate, the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, and its recent adaptations to anthropogenic habitats in southern India Co-authored with Ashni Kumar Dhawale. Journal of Biosciences, Vol. 47 (76) 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
	V V Binoy, Anindya Sinha 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 2019
	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 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
	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