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  1. Treats or affection? Understanding reward preferences in Indian free-ranging dogs

    Article • Animal Cognition, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  2. Beyond WEIRD humans and STRANGE dogs: Using big team science to improve generalizability and reproducibility in comparative psychology

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Anindita Bhadra

  3. How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2025, Wiley

    Anindita Bhadra

  4. When life gives you lemons, squeeze your way through: Understanding citrus avoidance behaviour by free-ranging dogs in India

    Article • Applied Animal Behaviour Science, August 2025, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  5. Fair game: urban free-ranging dogs balance resource use and risk aversion at seasonal fairs

    Article • Current Zoology, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anindita Bhadra

  6. What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  7. A population-level study reveals hidden patterns in resting site choice of free-ranging dogs

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anindita Bhadra

  8. Free-ranging dogs quickly learn to recognize a rewarding person

    Article • Applied Animal Behaviour Science, September 2024, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  9. Scavengers in the human-dominated landscape: an experimental study

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Anindita Bhadra

  10. Ready, set, yellow! Color Preference of Indian Free-ranging Dogs

    Article • February 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anindita Bhadra

  11. The case of curious dogs on Indian streets

    Article • December 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anindita Bhadra

  12. A Tale of Two Wasps and Why We Should Listen to It

    Article • Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  13. Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues

    Article • Animal Cognition, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  14. Time-activity budget of urban-adapted free-ranging dogs

    Article • acta ethologica, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  15. Response to short-lived human overcrowding by free-ranging dogs

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  16. Power-laws in dog behavior may pave the way to predictive models: A pattern analysis study

    Article • Heliyon, June 2021, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra, Dr Nandan Das

  17. Humans influence the personalities of free-ranging dogs

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Anindita Bhadra

  18. Free-ranging dogs in groups are less fearful of humans

    Article • Behaviour, March 2020, De Gruyter

    Anindita Bhadra

  19. “Bolder” together – response to human social cues in free-ranging dogs

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anindita Bhadra

  20. Scavengers can be choosers: A study on food preference in free-ranging dogs

    Article • Applied Animal Behaviour Science, July 2019, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  21. Free-ranging dogs understand human intentions and adjust their behavioral responses accordingly

    Article • July 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anindita Bhadra

  22. The great Indian joint families of free-ranging dogs

    Article • PLOS One, May 2018, PLOS

    Anindita Bhadra

  23. Free-ranging dogs show age related plasticity in their ability to follow human pointing

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Anindita Bhadra

  24. Practice makes perfect: familiarity of task determines success in solvable tasks for free-ranging dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)

    Article • Animal Cognition, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  25. Selfish Pups: Weaning Conflict and Milk Theft in Free-Ranging Dogs

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Anindita Bhadra

  26. Free-ranging dogs prefer petting over food in repeated interactions with unfamiliar humans

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Anindita Bhadra

  27. Clever mothers balance time and effort in parental care: a study on free-ranging dogs

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Anindita Bhadra

  28. Denning habits of free-ranging dogs reveal preference for human proximity

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  29. High early life mortality in free-ranging dogs is largely influenced by humans

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  30. When Love Is in the Air: Understanding Why Dogs Tend to Mate when It Rains

    Article • PLOS One, December 2015, PLOS

    Anindita Bhadra

  31. Selfish mothers indeed! Resource-dependent conflict over extended parental care in free-ranging dogs

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Anindita Bhadra

  32. The meat of the matter: a rule of thumb for scavenging dogs?

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Anindita Bhadra

  33. When life played dice with royal blood

    Article • Resonance, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  34. Grandmotherly care: a case study in Indian free-ranging dogs

    Article • Journal of Ethology, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  35. Selfish mothers? An empirical test of parent-offspring conflict over extended parental care

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2014, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  36. Preference for meat is not innate in dogs

    Article • Journal of Ethology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  37. To be or not to be social: foraging associations of free-ranging dogs in an urban ecosystem

    Article • acta ethologica, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  38. The evolution of complexity in social organization—A model using dominance-subordinate behavior in two social wasp species

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 2013, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  39. Chemical communication in Ropalidia marginata: Dufour's gland contains queen signal that is perceived across colonies and does not contain colony signal

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, February 2011, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  40. Regulation of Reproduction in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata: on the Trail of the Queen Pheromone

    Article • Journal of Chemical Ecology, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  41. A comparative social network analysis of wasp colonies and classrooms: Linking network structure to functioning

    Article • Ecological Complexity, March 2009, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  42. We know that the wasps ‘know’: cryptic successors to the queen inRopalidia marginata

    Article • Biology Letters, September 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Anindita Bhadra

  43. Workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata do not perceive their queen across a wire mesh partition

    Article • Journal of Ethology, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra

  44. How do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata detect the presence of their queens?

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 2007, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  45. A possible novel function of dominance behaviour in queen-less colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2007, Elsevier

    Anindita Bhadra

  46. Ernst Walter Mayr—The grand vizier of evolutionary biology (1904–2005)

    Article • Resonance, July 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anindita Bhadra