Education
Borges had her first stint in science at the Saint Xavier"s College, Mumbai. She obtained her bachelor"s degree in zoology and microbiology, with distinction, from the Institute of Science of the University of Bombay in 1979. She also obtained her master"s degree in animal physiology, in 1982.
She received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida, with a thesis entitled "Resource heterogeneity and the foraging ecology of the malabar giant squirrel, Ratufa indica".