Bamboo Flowering and Rodent Outbreaks

Dr. Shakunthala Sridhara after obtaining her Ph.D. in Animal Physiology from Banglore University joined a Ford Foundation Project on vertebrate pest management in the University of Agricultural Sciences. Bangalore, India in 1973. Over the past 33 years she has been researching on vertebrate pest management specially the control of rodents in the agricultural context. She has researched extensively on the ecology, population dynamics, food selection and feeding behaviour of rodents, toxicology of rodenticides and adoption of rodent pest management at village level. Her studies on behaviour relevant to management at Village level. Her studies on behaviour relevant to management of avian and mammalian pests are pioneering in the Indian contexts and well acknowledged culminating in adaptable technologies for their management. She has visited and interacted with specialists in the field across America and Europe several times. Keenly interested in animal behaviour studies and its application in pest and wildlife management, biodiversity conservation and ani9mal procedure, she is member of several national and international scientific bodies including the president ship of Ethological Society of (India, Indian representative in the International Council of Ethologists, IUCN species specialist group on rodents etc. At present is Professor and head of vertebrate Biology (Rodent Control) in the University of agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.