The authors are grateful to (i) the NRDMS Division, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India; (ii) Indian Institute of Science for the infra- structure support. We thank Central Marine Research Institute, Research Station Karwar for providing us with the Microbiology laboratory facility for carrying out preliminary bacterial isolation and Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore au- thorities for permitting to collect wild animal residues. Bacterial characterization, culture maintenance and enzyme extraction were carried out at Bacteria and Enzyme laboratory of Energy and Wetland Research Group (EWRG), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. We like to acknowledge EWRG, IISc field station, Kumta for field assistance.