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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Rucha P Karkarey conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Amod Zambre conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Kavita Isvaran conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Rohan Arthur conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

We received due clearances from Nature Conservation Foundation’s Research Ethics Committee and from the Department of Science and Technology and Department of Environment and Forests, Lakshadweep.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

This is not relevant to our manuscript since it is an opinion piece.

Funding

This work was supported by the Rufford Foundation and the Pew Marine Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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