Bhavya Iyer
bhavyaiyer.bsky.social
Bhavya Iyer
@bhavyaiyer.bsky.social
Wildlife biologist, nature writer, PhD student in Integrative Conservation & Forestry. Studying people's values towards nature!
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November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As always, research takes a whole team, and none of this would have been possible without the support of many people, including my field assistants, forest departments staff; faculty, biologists and my advisors at the Wildlife Institute of India, and RRCF India who helped fund my work.
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There's so much to learn about scavengers in India, vertebrate and invertebrate, and hopefully our experimental approach and inferences can help guide future studies in this field. If you're interested in studying these topics I'd love to speak with you!
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Vertebrate scavengers consumed carrion biomass much faster than invertebrates or microbes. This is one of the first studies on scavenging ecology in India, and we're just looking at the tip of this iceberg. There's lots more to learn, like the effects of species composition on carrion consumption
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We used chicken carcasses in an exclusion experiment setting to compare the rates at which different groups of scavengers (vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes) consumed carrion, near the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India.
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sharing an article I wrote about vertebrate scavengers, the topic of my Master's thesis. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in Central India, studying vertebrate scavenger communities in two different protected areas - one with an abundance of vulture, one without.
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How Scavengers Keep the Ecosystem Clean | Roundglass | Sustain
Vultures and other scavengers not only clear decaying animal corpses, protecting us from disease, but their absence could also destabilise entire ecosystems
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July 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM