present Fishes do fear the reaper; Understanding the magnitude and mechanism of the effects of human interactions on animal behavior. Ph.D. thesis dealing with predator - prey interactions and the ecology of fear. Monitoring elasmobranchs in Malvan Long term monitoring of elasmobranch fisheries on the west coast of India. Priorities for research and management in the Andaman Islands Survey to determine imporant areas of research for the future of the ANI. past Fisheries and marine mesopredators Changing mesopredator species dynamics in an anthropogenically dominated seascape Sea snakes assemblage shifts Fisheries induced shifts in sea snake assemblages along the Konkan coast of India Birds and Butterflies of Tamhini Ghat Dissertation project submitted to Pune Univeristy.