About the Authors

Mukesh Thakur

Contributed equally to this work with: Mukesh Thakur, Abhishek Singh, Bheem Dutt Joshi

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

thamukesh@gmail.com

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Abhishek Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Mukesh Thakur, Abhishek Singh, Bheem Dutt Joshi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Bheem Dutt Joshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mukesh Thakur, Abhishek Singh, Bheem Dutt Joshi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Avijit Ghosh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sujeet Kumar Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Neha Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

Lalit Kumar Sharma

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Kailash Chandra

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

Dr. Mukesh Thakur is a PLOS ONE Academic Editor. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies including sharing data, materials and peer review process.