Challenges in rescuing snakes to protect human lives and promote snake conservation in Tamil Nadu, India

• Anika Salim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Jarred Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Jose R. Almeida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Gnaneswar Chandrasekharuni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Harry F. Williams,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Rajendran Vaiyapuri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Mohanraj Vaiyapuri,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Rajan Viswanath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Urvanam Foundation, Tamil Nadu Snake Conservation Forum, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Thanigaivel Annamalai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Ketan Patel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation The Tamil Nadu Dr M.G.R Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Subaramanian Senthilkumaran,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Manian Medical Centre, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Romulus Whitaker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Sakthivel Vaiyapuri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.vaiyapuri@reading.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-6517

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