Professor Chakrabarti is a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist studying\u00a0why\u00a0and\u00a0how\u00a0animals do what they do, and how that affects their interactions with humans. His research entails observing wild animals in their natural settings either personally or through remote cameras, systems ranging from lions, wolves, deer, elephants, and beavers across the hot and dry savannas in India and East Africa, to cold and snowy boreal forests of North America. His research questions address the evolution of sociality, mating strategies, predator-prey interactions, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation. Stotra is deeply invested in communicating and teaching science in classrooms and outside. His classes at Mac provide students with hands-on experiences of working with and understanding animals. He mentors students who are interested in the natural world, and its array of ecological correlates. He\u2019s a big fan of poetry, soccer, ping-pong, philosophy and cheesecakes.
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