Drawing on a decade of the speaker’s field research across some of India’s most biodiverse regions, including the Western Ghats, the Himalayas and the Northeastern hills, this lecture will offer an engaging introduction to amphibian behaviour and communication. It will explore novel findings on amphibian reproductive behaviour and acoustic communication while highlighting the urgent conservation challenges facing these remarkable species. The lecture will also turn closer to home, with a look at the amphibians of Delhi-NCR and the fascinating species that inhabit our own urban landscape.

About the lecturer

Dr. Robin Suyesh is a field biologist and has primarily worked on the herpetofauna of the South and South East Asia - (Western Ghats, Central India, Himalayan region of Indian subcontinent, Malaysian Borneo, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia). His research till date has focused on understanding and documenting the behavior and ecology of some very interesting amphibian species in these three biodiversity hotspots and also on unraveling the amphibian biodiversity in these regions through description of new species (co-authored 13 new species till date).

His Phd research was on "Acoustic communication in the bush frogs of genus Raorchestes and Pseudophilautus" from University of Delhi

collaboration with University of Minnesota, USA.

Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

See you on Sunday!