Pranav Minasandra, PhD

Published

  1. P Minasandra, EM Grout, K Brock, MC Crofoot, et al. Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features PNAS (2025) DOI:10.1073/pnas.2503962122
  2. V DeNicola, S Mezzini, P Bursac, P Minasandra, et al. Effects of vasectomy on breeding-related movement and activity in free-ranging white-tailed deer Movement Ecology (2025) DOI:10.1186/s40462-025-00554-5
  3. P Minasandra, FH Jensen, AS Gersick, KE Holekamp, et al. Accelerometer-based predictions of behaviour elucidate factors affecting the daily activity patterns of spotted hyenas Royal Society Open Science 11 230750 (2023) DOI:10.1098/rsos.230750
  4. EM Grout, J Ortega, P Minasandra, MJ Quin, et al. Whole Group Tracking Reveals That Relatedness Drives Consistent Subgrouping Patterns in White-Nosed Coatis Animal Behaviour 175–193 (2024) DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.010
  5. S Kunjar, A Strandburg-Peshkin, H Giese, P Minasandra, et al. Link updating strategies influence consensus decisions as a function of the direction of communication Royal Society Open Science 6 230215 (2023) DOI:10.1098/rsos.230215
  6. P Minasandra and K Isvaran Truncated power-law distribution of group sizes in antelope Behaviour 6 541–558 (2020) DOI:10.1163/1568539X-bja10012

I am in the process of writing up a layperson's explanation for each of those papers above that I have led.

In-prep

  1. P Minasandra and C Baldoni Theory of mind influences group performance and provides evolutionary advantages in a classic model of animal aggregation
  2. P Minasandra, V Demartsev, L Johnson-Ulrich, M Manser, et al. Spatiotemporal interplay of vigilance, movement, and collective behaviour in groups of meerkats
  3. I Planas-Sitjà, P Minasandra, D Roche, and VH Sridhar TracktorLive: a real-time multi-object tracking and response delivery package
  4. EM Grout, P Minasandra, M Thomas, J Ortega, et al. The vocal repertoire in White-Nosed Coatis (Nasua narica): structural features, temporal dynamics, and social variations.
  5. GEC Gall, V  Demartsev, P Minasandra, C Baldoni, et al. Examining combinatoriality within the pūkeko vocal repertoire