Published November 10, 2022 | Version 1

Thermal regimes and hatching success related data for wild king cobra nests from the Western Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

Description

This dataset, collected between 2009-2020, describes the thermal regimes of wild king cobra nests from the foothills of the Western Himalayas of Uttarakhand, northern India. Nest and ambient temperatures at nest sites were recorded every hour via automatic data loggers during, mostly, the latter part of incubation period (post natural nest-abandonment by female king cobras). Nest attributes (e.g. size, weight etc.) and hatching success parameters (i.e. percentage of hatched eggs and offspring size) are also provided per nest. All uploaded data have been analyzed in the paper: "House warming: wild king cobra nests have thermal regimes that positively affect hatching success and hatchling size" by Dolia et al. (currently under review in Journal of Thermal Biology.)

Notes

This dataset is part of the author's (Jignasu Dolia) ongoing PhD research. Please contact him for permissions to use it or for any clarifications regarding this data-set. Part of this research was supported by grants awarded to the author by the Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (UAE), Rufford Foundation (UK), Idea Wild (USA) and Wildlife Conservation Trust (INDIA).

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