Animal Diversity: Natural History and Conservation Vol. 5

The chapters incorporated in the present Volume 5 of the book series Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation represents an extremely modest selection of several facts on the subject. The lead articles includes: • Community Ecology and Taxonomy of Polychaetes in a Tropical Estuary • Distribution of Nymphalid Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at Different Altitudinal Habitats • A Taxonomic Review of the Genus Cyrtolabulus Van der Vecht, 1969 • Web Dynamics and Estimation of Capture Area of the Common Signature Spider, Argiope pulchella Thorell • Morphology of Cyrtophora bidenta Tikader • Effect of Insecticides on Spiders • Eco-biology of the Endemic Fruit Fly Phorticella striata • Breeding Biology and Mating Strategies of Coral Reef Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni Gibbes • Perspective on Fish Diversity • DNA Fingerprinting in Conservational Research on Ichthyofauna • Aspects of Dietary Tactics and Choices in Little Brown Doves (Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis) • In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation of Red Panda • Habitat Characteristics and Foraging Ecology of Common Babbler, Turdoides caudatus caudatus • Behavioural Ecology of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus Shaw 1791) • Ecological Crisis vis-à-vis Intraspecific Conflict: A Case Study with Rhinos • State of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758) and its Habitat It is hoped, this volume of the series shall be a useful resource of knowledge for the biologists, environmentalists, ecologists, conservationists and people of allied disciplines engaged in respective fields of research.