Photo of Shomita  Mukherjee Shomita Mukherjee
Salim Ali Centre for Orinthology and Natural History, Anaikatty post
641108 Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
shomitam(at)gmail.com

member since 1995
I did my Master’s (Wildlife Biology) and Doctoral Degrees from the Wildlife Institute of India and Saurashtra University, Rajkot Gujarat and my post-doctoral work at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. I studied several species of small cats to varying degrees throughout India,including diets, distribution and phylogeography of jungle cat, leopard cat and fishing cat,distributions and activity times of marbled cat, clouded leopard, Asiatic golden cat and leopard cat in Arunachal Pradesh and distribution and diet of Rusty-spotted Cat involving trained citizen volunteers in Mumbai. I recently worked as a consultant for UNDP to design a small cat conservation program for India. I am currently employed at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History,Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.