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

asinha@nias.res.in

Room no

S 22

CV-Anindya_Sinha-March2025.pdf

Department

Faculty

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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

	Anindya Sinha Performance at the Urban Periphery – Insights from South India. Turner, C., Srinivasan, S., Daboo, J., & Sinha, A. (2022). Performance at the urban periphery: Insights from south India. Routledge. 2022
	Anindya Sinha Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self. Menon, S., Sinha, A., & Sreekantan, B. V. (Eds.). (2014). Interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness and the self (pp. 1-8). Springer India. 2014
	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 Of Culture and Nature: Interdisciplinary Forays into Cultural Ecosystem Services through Human–Wildlife Relationships Ramakrishna, I., Joshi, Y. C., & Sinha, A. (2025). Of culture and nature: Interdisciplinary forays into cultural ecosystem services through human–wildlife relationships. In The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services (pp. 213-227). Routledge. 2025
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Being macaque: Nonhuman ethnographies of urban India Co-Authored with Maan Barua, In: Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography (Eds. Banerji D, Islam M M and Sengupta S). Bloomsbury Academic India, New Delhi, pp. 75-91 2024
	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 Tactical deception in wild bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata. Sinha, A. (2004). Tactical deception in wild bonnet macaques. Macaca radiate. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 322-324. 2004
	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 Putting the mind back into nature: The origin and evolution of consciousness. Sinha, A. (1999). Putting the mind back into nature: The origin and evolution of consciousness. Scientific and philosophical studies on consciousness, 149-158. 1999
	Anindya Sinha Almost minds? The search for consciousness in nonhuman primates. Sinha, A. N. I. N. D. Y. A. (1999). Almost minds? The search for consciousness in nonhuman primates. Scientific and philosophical studies on consciousness, 149-158. 1999
	Anindya Sinha How is colony activity regulated in Ropalidia marginata? Premnath, S., Sinha, A., & Gadagkar, R. (1996). How is colony activity regulated in Ropalidia marginata?. New Age International Limited. 1996

	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration Sinha, Anindya and Chatterjee, .Mayukh and Dhawale, Ashni Kumar and et al, . (2025) MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration. Journal of Animal Ecology. 11 February 2025 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Animal Behaviour and Cognition Adivasi (Tea Tribe) worldviews of living close to wild Asian elephants in Assam, India Banerjee, S., Nayak, D., & Sinha, A. (2024). Adivasi (Tea Tribe) worldviews of living close to wild Asian elephants in Assam, India. Conservation Biology, 38(6), e14397. 25 November 2024 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha co-authored Human-animal interactions: Camera traps as research agents Co-Authored with Lainé, N., Simenel, R., Labadie, M., & Srinivasaiah, N. M., (2024). Human‐animal interactions: Camera traps as research agents. Anthropology Today, 40(4), 22-26. 4 September 2024 Journal Articles
	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 Use of enclosure space by captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Mallapur, A., Waran, N., & Sinha, A. (2005). Use of enclosure space by captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 8(3), 175-186. 28 December 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Ecology proposes, behavior disposes: Ecological variability in social organization and male behavioural strategies among wild bonnet macaques. Sinha, A., Mukhopadhyay, K., Datta-Roy, A., & Ram, S. (2005). Ecology proposes, behaviour disposes: Ecological variability in social organization and male behavioural strategies among wild bonnet macaques. Current Science, 1166-1179. 10 October 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Preliminary observations on the differences in reproductive behaviour between breeding and non-breeding captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Mallapur, A., Waran, N., Seaman, S., & Sinha, A. (2006). Preliminary observations on the differences in reproductive behaviour between breeding and non-breeding captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Applied Animal Behaviour 28 September 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Macaca munzala: A new species from western Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Sinha, A., Datta, A., Madhusudan, M. D., & Mishra, C. (2005). Macaca munzala: a new species from western Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. International Journal of Primatology, 26, 977-989. 28 August 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Discovery of the Tibetan macaque Macaca thibetana in Arunachal Pradesh, India Kumar, S. R., Mishra, C., & Sinha, A. (2005). Discovery of the Tibetan macaque Macaca thibetana in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Current Science, 88(9), 1387-1388. 10 May 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Influence of visitor presence on the behaviour of captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Mallapur, A., Sinha, A., & Waran, N. (2005). Influence of visitor presence on the behaviour of captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 94(3-4), 341-352. 22 April 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Not in their genes: Phenotypic flexibility, social traditions and cultural evolution in wild bonnet macaques Sinha, A. (2005). Not in their genes: Phenotypic flexibility, behavioural traditions and cultural evolution in wild bonnet macaques. Journal of biosciences, 30(1), 51-64. 28 February 2005 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Factors influencing the behaviour and welfare of captive lion-tailed macaques in Indian zoos. Mallapur, A., Waran, N., & Sinha, A. (2005). Factors influencing the behaviour and welfare of captive lion-tailed macaques in Indian zoos. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 91(3-4), 337-353. 28 December 2004 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha A beautiful mind: Attribution and intentionality in wild bonnet macaques Sinha, A. (2003). A beautiful mind: Attribution and intentionality in wild bonnet macaques. Current Science, 1021-1030. 10 October 2003 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Changing social strategies of wild female bonnet macaques during natural foraging and on provisioning Ram, S., Venkatachalam, S., & Sinha, A. (2003). Changing social strategies of wild female bonnet macaques during natural foraging and on provisioning. Current Science, 780-790. 25 March 2003 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Slow and fast kindling during hyperthermic stimulation in rats Implications for hot water epilepsy Krishnamurthy, U., Ullal, G. R., Satishchandra, P., & Sinha, A. (2000). Slow and fast kindling during hyperthermic stimulation in rats: Implications for hot water epilepsy. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 4(3), 183-185. 28 December 2000 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Genetics of hot water epilepsy: A preliminary analysis Sinha, A., Ullal, G. R., Shankar, S. K., & Satishchandra, P. (1999). Genetics of hot-water epilepsy: a preliminary analysis. Current science, 77(11), 1407-1410. 10 December 1999 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Knowledge acquired and decisions made: triadic interactions during allogrooming in wild bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata Sinha, A. (1998). Knowledge acquired and decisions made: triadic interactions during allogrooming in wild bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 353(1368), 619-631. 29 April 1998 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Complex tool manufacture by a wild bonnet macaque, Macaca radiata Sinha, A. (1997). Complex tool manufacture by a wild bonnet macaque, Macaca radiata. Folia Primatologica, 68(1), 23-25. 28 September 1997 Journal Articles
	Anindya Sinha Dominance relationships in the establishment of reproductive division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp (Ropalidia marginata) Premnath, S., Sinha, A., & Gadagkar, R. (1996). Dominance relationship in the establishment of reproductive division of labour in a primitively eusocial wasp (Ropalidia marginata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 39, 125-132. 20 April 1996 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
	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