Publications
This page collects published papers, preprints, and a few ongoing lines of work. As the site grows, I will add code, slides, and supplementary material where available.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Wewhare, N. and Krishnan, A. (2024)
Individual-specific associations between warble song notes and body movements in budgerigar courtship displays.
Biology Open.
DOI | First Person interview
This paper studies how vocal and body-movement elements align during budgerigar courtship and asks how consistent those associations are across individuals.
Madabhushi, A. J. J., Wewhare, N., Binwal, P., Agarwal, V., and Krishnan, A. (2023)
Higher-order dialect variation and syntactic convergence in the complex warble song of budgerigars.
Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(20): jeb245678.
DOI
This study examines dialect variation and convergence in complex warble song, with attention to higher-order sequence structure.
Wewhare, N. and Pandey, U. (2021)
First record of scavenging by a checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator) from Western Maharashtra, India.
Reptiles & Amphibians, 28(2), 348-349.
DOI
Preprints and Work in Progress
Dhati, A. M., Wewhare, N., Devasthale, N. S., Sundar, S., Parulekar, N., and Krishnan, A. (2025)
Vocal sequences of diverse parrots suggest an important role for note repetition.
bioRxiv.
Preprint
Wewhare, N., Burkart, J. M., and Wierucka, K.
Sequence-level vocal convergence in a social primate.
In preparation.
Talks and Workshops
- Quantifying syntactic convergence in common marmoset vocal sequences, contributed talk at Bioacoustics & AI 101: Making AI Accessible to Everybody (University of Copenhagen, September 2024). Recording
- Poster on budgerigar courtship displays at the 5th Conference of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (October 2024).