CharOtter: Urban Otters and their interactions with Local Human Communities in Central Gujarat

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CharOtter: Urban Otters and their interactions with Local Human Communities in Central Gujarat

06:00 PM

February 07, 2024

Infosys Science Foundation

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CharOtter: Urban Otters and their interactions with Local Human Communities in Central Gujarat

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Recent literature on human-wildlife interactions primarily explores how species interact with humans in shared spaces. However, a research gap exists regarding species willingly migrating to urban areas. Smooth-coated otters, absent from central Gujarat cities for 4-5 decades, now appear regularly. Urban living poses unique challenges and advantages, exposing otters to new stimuli like food, objects, pets, people, and activities. Our project aims to understand how otters navigate these challenges and how locals respond to an unfamiliar species

Speaker

Yashendu Joshi

Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, and PALOC Lab - National Natural History Museum, France