Nitya Prakash Mohanty is a herpetologist who has spent the last decade studying frogs and lizards, asking interesting questions about their patterns of invasion and sleep! He began his foray into wildlife with a master’s from the Wildlife Institute of India, wherein he studied spotted deer and frogs in the Andaman Islands. After a PhD and a postdoc in South Africa, Nitya is currently doing more post-doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
Twitter: @NityaPM 
Popular Media:

Mind the tadpoles: No survival of native larval frogs in the presence of invasive Indian bullfrog tadpoles 
Indian bullfrogs take to invasive behaviour early in Andamans  
Sleep Ecology of Reptiles (video)  

Journal Articles:

Non-native populations and global invasion potential of the Indian bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus: a synthesis for risk-analysis 
Shrinking before our isles: the rapid expression of insular dwarfism in two invasive populations of guttural toad (Sclerophrys gutturalis)  
Watch out where you sleep: Nocturnal sleeping behaviour of Bay Island lizards  
Impact of invasive spotted deer (Axis axis) on tropical island lizard communities in the Andaman archipelago 

Shownotes:

Nandankanan Zoological Park  
Postgraduate Programme in Wildlife Science, Wildlife Institute of India  
Andaman and Nicobar Environment Team  
NITI Aayog's megacity plan for Little Andaman alarms conservationists 

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