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Certificate - Etheses - Saurashtra University

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />

Several individuals have made this study on brown bear successful and I would like to<br />

express my sincere gratitude to everyone. First and foremost, I express my special<br />

word of thanks to my guide Dr. N. P. S. Chauhan, for his constant research guidance,<br />

advice, suggestions and for having critically gone through the manuscript. His<br />

valuable and friendly guidance on every stage of my research is greatly<br />

acknowledged.<br />

The foremost person to whom I am grateful is my teacher, my mentor and a person<br />

who introduced me to research Prof. H. S. Banyal, Department of Biosciences,<br />

Himachal Pradesh <strong>University</strong>, Shimla. I learnt a lot more about life and values than<br />

about wildlife from him.<br />

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Prof. V. C. Soni, Department of Bio-<br />

Sciences, <strong>Saurashtra</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Rajkot for his help and support throughout the<br />

period. Someones who deserve a special mention are Mr. Harry Reynolds, Ex-<br />

President, International Bear Association, and Dr. Diana Doan-Crider who gave me<br />

the chance to attend 15 th and 18 th International Conferences on Bear Research and<br />

Management held at San Diego, California, USA in February, 2004 and Monterrey,<br />

Mexico City in November, 2007 and greatly appreciated my work on bears. I also<br />

acknowledge the organizing secretary, Dr. Andrew Belmfold of Department of<br />

Zoology, <strong>University</strong> of Cambridge, U.K. for giving me the chance to attend 6 th<br />

International Conference on Conservation Science held in March 2006. I would like<br />

to express my sincere sense of gratitude to the Secretary cum Commissioner of higher<br />

education and Director Higher education, Government of Himachal Pradesh for<br />

granting me the permission to attend above cited international conferences.<br />

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