Geospatial Evaluation of Dispersal of Asiatic Wild ass in Human dominated landscape in and around WAS Gujarat India

Abstract

Basically, passionate nature wanderer in me, turned me towards the newlinenature photography and towards wildlife photography there on. Due to this, I newlineremained always in search of wildlife species at- far, remote, deserted, isolated newlineand peaceful patches of mother earth. On a fortunate evening, I came across this newlinebeautiful animal on the farmlands near Surendranagar town. It was the herd of newlineIndian Wild ass; they were 32 in numbers. I have seen them at Wild Ass newlineSanctuary earlier but this time, it was quite closer encounter. I was surprised too newlineas it was too far from their natural habitat and cause of such dispersion was not newlinevisible. For next long span of 3-4 years, I was very close to this animal on this newlinepatch, photographing their nice and rare moments. But at the saturation soon, I newlinegot fade up with camera. Gradually, many times I remained almost motionless newlinein front of this animal, gazing them for hours. They too, were not keeping vigil newlineon me always. Now, they have accepted me and almost ignored my presence. newlineThat enabled me, to look into their daily trials easily. At some moment, I left my newlinecamera back, forever for them and it was the turning point of our relationship. I newlinewas observing their moments for hours slowly, I could extract some meaningful newlinepattern in their behavior. I started log-keeping about their activity and comparing newlineit with same situation in history. Such comparison exposed some hardcore facts newlinein their behavior and connected missing links. That ignited my curiosity to know newlinetheir behavior in their natural habitat ie. Little Rann of Kutchh. I visited Wild newlineAss Sanctuary at Little Rann of Kutchh, several times and many unusual newlineobservations in their behavior was noted. Now, I wanted the gene-based newlinebehaviour, so, I visited it s subspecies Kiang at the Ladakh in 2016. I wanted to newlineknow that why this animal has dispersed themselves on the human areas? I newlinewanted a systematic study to find out the reasons, for the dispersal of the animal. newlineAs being an expert in Physics, I wanted to use Physics for this analysis.