Publication dateTitle 2025Rishi Baral, Binaya Adhikari, Abhisek Sapkota, Saroj Panthi, Chiranjeevi Khanal, Sandesh Gurung, Keshab Raj Sapkota, Naresh Subedi, Bishwanath Rijal, Raju Acharya, Michito Shimozuru  and Toshio Tsubota. (2025). Understanding Suitable Habitats and Anthropogenic Mortality Risks for King Cobras in Nepal. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72030  2024Abhisek Sapkota, Karan Bahadur Shah, Keshab Raj Sapkota and Rishi Baral 2024. A rumble in the wood: First report of three male-male combat in Oriental rat snakes Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus, 1758). NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 20 (2): 172 – 174. https://biozoojournals.ro/nwjz/content/v20n2/nwjz_e242504_Sapkota.pdf  2024Abhisek Sapkota, Keshab Raj Sapkota and Rishi Baral (2024). New insights into dermatophagy in Himalayan toad Duttaphrynus himalayanus (Günther, 1864) from Pokhara, Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Zoology, 8(2), 65–68. https://doi.org/10.3126/njz.v8i2.74939  2021Rohit Giri, Rishi Baral, Roshan Giri, Karan Bahadur Shah, and Frank Tillack, 2021. First records of the spitting behavior of Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) from Nepal. Russian Journal of Herpetology. 28 (2): 122 – 124. https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2021-28-2-122-124  2021Rishi Baral, Keshab Raj Sapkota, Mahendra Prasad Katila, Roshan Giri, Sagar Pandey, Aakash Bhandari, Abhisek Sapkota and Ramji Gautam 2021.  Diversity of Snake in Kaski district of Gandaki Province, Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Zoology 4(2):101–107. https://doi.org/10.3126/njz.v4i2.33892  2019Rishi Baral, Shailendra Kumar Yadav,Ramji Gautam, Mahendra Prasad Katila, Raj Kumar Gurung, Ashok Subedi and Binod Basnet. 2019. Status and distribution of King Cobra in Southern Annapurna Conservation Area Nepal.  Friends of Nature, The Himlayan Naturalist, 2(1): 37-41. http://fonnepal.org/volume-2-issue-1      

Publication dateTitle2020Oral Presentation: Rishi Baral. 2020: Speaker on first national conference on Zoology on the theme Biodiversity on the changing world organized  by Central Department of Zoology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal,  held on 28-30 November, 2022 on research title “Diversity of Snakes in Kaski District of Gandaki Province, Nepal”.      https://www.cdztu.edu.np/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Abstract-Book_NCZ-2020.pdf

Herpetofauna of the Annapurna Conservation Area