Saini, Deepesh
Sonker, Gaurav
Parab, Tushar
Kolipakam, Vishnupriya
Sathyakumar, Sambandam
Lyngdoh, Salvador
Gupta, Sandeep Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-0210
Article History
Received: 28 May 2024
Accepted: 21 December 2024
First Online: 11 January 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no financial support received for this study. The authors declare that they have no competing interests in this study.
: Before conducting the field survey, the necessary approval was obtained from the concerned authority, namely, the Forest Departments of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Sikkim. We were authorized to conduct research and collect non-invasive biological samples. We used our own images in this study. The sampling location and distribution maps were created in-house using the template of the Survey of India map.
: We did not use any live animals in this study and utilized only non-invasive samples. Hence, no Institutional Animal Ethics Committee approval was required.