Saini, Deepesh
Upadhayay, Himanshi
Parab, Tushar
Kolipakam, Vishnupriya
Gupta, Sandeep Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-0210
Article History
Received: 23 April 2025
Accepted: 28 July 2025
First Online: 2 August 2025
Declarations
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: 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.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: 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.