About the Authors

Devcharan Jathanna

Affiliation Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India

K. Ullas Karanth

Affiliations Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India, Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bangalore, India, Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America

N. Samba Kumar

Affiliations Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India, Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bangalore, India

Krithi K. Karanth

Affiliations Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India, Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Varun R. Goswami

varunr.goswami@gmail.com

Affiliations Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India, Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KUK NSK. Performed the experiments: KUK NSK. Analyzed the data: DJ VRG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KUK NSK DJ KKK. Wrote the paper: DJ KKK KUK VRG.