An Overview of Vertebrate Pests in India

• Published in: Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
• Main Author: Sridhara, Shakunthala
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2006
• Subjects: bird pests; blue bull; elephant; frugivore bats; hare; India; lethal control; monkeys; non-lethal methods; peacock; rodents; sloth bear; wild boar; Life Sciences; Giganteus; Peacock; Sphinx; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7hw2r9p9

A billion-plus human population, agriculture, and development are shrinking and degrading the habitat of many of the 1,200 bird and 500 mammal species of India. With humans and herbivores competing for the same resources, many of them are becoming pests on crops. The granivorous birds depredate on s...