Sindhu Radhakrishna

Professor

Administrative Position

Head

School

School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Programme

Animal Behaviour and Cognition

Phone

+91-080-2218 5115

E-mail

sindhu.radhakrishna@gmail.com

Room no

S 23

Department

Faculty

Joined NIAS on 1st September 2002. Most significant research contribution: Study on non-human primates contributing to significant understanding of human sociality. Dr. Sindhu Radhakrishna holds a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in animal behaviour.

Her research interests are in the fields of primatology, behavioral ecology and conservation biology, and her work has focused on gaining a better understanding of social behaviour and communication in nocturnal primates. She was awarded the INSA Young Scientist's Award in recognition of the significance of her doctoral research on the behaviourial ecology of the Slender loris, a nocturnal primate found in southern India

Publications

Is human–rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) conflict in India a case of human–human conflict?

Reliability of macaques as seed dispersers

Why do people visit primate tourism sites? Investigating macaque tourism in Japan and Indonesia

What does human-animal studies have to offer ethology?

Using conditioned taste aversion to reduce human-nonhuman primate conflict: A comparison of four potentially illness-inducing drugs

To kill or not to kill?: factors related to people’s support of lethal and non-lethal strategies for managing monkeys in India

The extinction of experience in a biodiversity hotspot: rural school children’s knowledge of animals in the Western Ghats, India

The human–primate interface in the New Normal: Challenges and opportunities for primatologists in the COVID‐19 era and beyond

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

Is human–rhesus macaque (macaca mulatta) conflict in India a case of human-human conflict?

Using conditioned taste aversion to reduce human-nonhuman primate conflict: A comparison of four potentially illness-inducing drugs

To kill or not to kill?: Factors related to people’s support of lethal and non-lethal strategies for managing monkeys in India

Reliability of macaques as seed dispersers

Human-Elephant conflict in Kerala, India: A rapid appraisal using compensation records.

Janus-faced interactions: The nature of human-macaque conflicts in India.

Bridging Educational Institutions for a Citizen Science Project: A Case Study from Malappuram District, Kerala, India

The extinction of experience in a biodiversity hotspot: rural school children’s knowledge of animals in the Western Ghats, India

The Culture of Environmental Education: Insights from a Citizen Science Experiment in India

Anitha Kurup, V V Binoy, Sindhu Radhakrishna
Education
Bridging Educational Institutions for a Citizen Science Project: A Case Study from Malappuram District, Kerala, India
In: P Bagla and VV Binoy (ed.), When Science Meet Public: Bridging the Gap. New Delhi: Springer Publication. pp.269-277.
2017

	Anitha Kurup, V V Binoy, Sindhu Radhakrishna Education The extinction of experience in a biodiversity hotspot: rural school children’s knowledge of animals in the Western Ghats, India Curent Science 121(3): 313-316. doi: 10.18520/cs/v121/i2/313-316 28 December 2021 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Why do people visit primate tourism sites? Investigating macaque tourism in Japan and Indonesia Primates, October 2021 1 October 2021 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition To kill or not to kill?: factors related to people’s support of lethal and non-lethal strategies for managing monkeys in India Human Dimensions of Wildlife, December 2020 1 December 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The human–primate interface in the New Normal: Challenges and opportunities for primatologists in the COVID‐19 era and beyond American Journal of Primatology, August 2020 1 August 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition What does human-animal studies have to offer ethology? Acta Ethologica, July 2020 1 July 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Using conditioned taste aversion to reduce human-nonhuman primate conflict: A comparison of four potentially illness-inducing drugs Applied Animal Behaviour Science, April 2020 1 April 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Is human–rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) conflict in India a case of human–human conflict? Ambio, March 2020 1 March 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Reliability of macaques as seed dispersers American Journal of Primatology, February 2020 1 February 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Human-Elephant conflict in Kerala, India: A rapid appraisal using compensation records. Human Ecology 48: 101-109. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Reliability of macaques as seed dispersers American Journal of Primatology 82(5): e23115 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition To kill or not to kill?: Factors related to people’s support of lethal and non-lethal strategies for managing monkeys in India Human Dimensions of Wildlife 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna, Paula A Pebsworth co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Using conditioned taste aversion to reduce human-nonhuman primate conflict: A comparison of four potentially illness-inducing drugs Applied Animal Behaviour Science 225(104948) 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna, Shaurabh Anand co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Is human–rhesus macaque (macaca mulatta) conflict in India a case of human-human conflict? Ambio 49: 1685-1696. 1 January 2020 Journal Articles
	Sindhu Radhakrishna co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition Janus-faced interactions: The nature of human-macaque conflicts in India. Hornbill Apr-June: 107-111. 1 January 2019 Journal Articles
	Anitha Kurup, V V Binoy, Sindhu Radhakrishna Education The Culture of Environmental Education: Insights from a Citizen Science Experiment in India Current Science, vol. 107, no. 176 2, 25 July 28 December 2014 Journal Articles

	Sindhu Radhakrishna, V V Binoy co-authored Animal Behaviour and Cognition The extinction of experience in a biodiversity hotspot: rural school children’s knowledge of animals in the Western Ghats, India Current Science, July 2021 5 July 2021
	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