Sacred groves and serpent‐gods moderate human–snake relations

Abstract Serpent‐god worship is an ancient tradition still practiced in many sacred groves across the Western Ghats of India. Although sacred groves there hold ecological conservation value, few studies have focused on arguably the most iconic taxon in the region, snakes. We thus investigated the im...

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Main Authors: Félix Landry Yuan, U. Prashanth Ballullaya, Ramesh Roshnath, Timothy C. Bonebrake, Palatty Allesh Sinu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-03-01
Series:People and Nature
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10059