Description: The chapters incorporated in the present Volume 5 of the book series Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation represents an extremely modest selection of several facts on the subject. The lead articles includes: - Community Ecology and Taxonomy of Polychaetes in a Tropical Estuary - Distribution of Nymphalid Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at Different Altitudinal Habitats - A Taxonomic Review of the Genus Cyrtolabulus Van der Vecht, 1969 - Web Dynamics and Estimation of Capture Area of the Common Signature Spider, Argiope pulchella Thorell - Morphology of Cyrtophora bidenta Tikader - Effect of Insecticides on Spiders - Eco-biology of the Endemic Fruit Fly Phorticella striata - Breeding Biology and Mating Strategies of Coral Reef Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni Gibbes - Perspective on Fish Diversity - DNA Fingerprinting in Conservational Research on Ichthyofauna - Aspects of Dietary Tactics and Choices in Little Brown Doves (Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis) - In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation of Red Panda - Habitat Characteristics and Foraging Ecology of Common Babbler, Turdoides caudatus caudatus - Behavioural Ecology of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus Shaw 1791) - Ecological Crisis vis-à-vis Intraspecific Conflict: A Case Study with Rhinos - State of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758) and its Habitat It is hoped, this volume of the series shall be a useful resource of knowledge for the biologists, environmentalists, ecologists, conservationists and people of allied disciplines engaged in respective fields of research.
