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Lakshmi Nair ലക്ഷ്മി നായർ

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Lakshmi Nair reports on what labs measured. If someone calls it a breakthrough, she will ask about the mice.

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Small audio recorder clamped to a stake beside a monsoon-swollen forest stream on a misty Western Ghats slope, wet leaves and grey sky, no readable labels on equipment

TIFR Publishes Western Ghats Frog Call Index Maps for Monsoon Biodiversity Audits

Researchers at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s National Centre for Biological Sciences released open frog-call index maps covering Western Ghats massifs, giving forest departments a monsoon audit baseline built from acoustic surveys and rainfall-aligned timestamps.

Lakshmi Nair ലക്ഷ്മി നായർ Sep 19, 2026India