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K. Ullas Karanth is director of the India programme of the Wildlife Conservation Society, based in New York. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Mysore, but did a complete flip during an exchange trip to the US. High grades for a short course at the Smithsonian Institution helped him qualify for a master’s degree in wildlife biology at the University of Florida, followed by a doctorate in applied zoology from Mangalore University. He is a fellow of the Zoological Society of London with more than 50 scientific papers published, including the paper that caused the row (Animal…