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.