About the Authors

Jayabalan Maruthupandian

Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Ganapathy Marimuthu

emailboxgm@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Permission obtained from the land owner to carry out the field work: JM. Conceived and designed the experiments: JM. Performed the experiments: JM. Analyzed the data: JM GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM GM. Wrote the paper: GM.