I am currently a Doctoral Fellow, and my research examines human–crocodile relationships in Gujarat, western India, with a focus on how cohabitation is ethically, affectively, and ecologically negotiated across varied socio-spatial contexts. Moving beyond dominant conflict-based or symbolic framings of human–nonhuman interaction, our work foregrounds vernacular ethologies—locally situated practices of reading, responding to, and living with crocodiles—as both epistemic and ethical frameworks. We also examine how acts of non-retaliation in the wake of negative encounters function as agentive moral decisions, situated within relational ontologies that treat crocodiles as ancestral or sentient beings.