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Personality structure across wild and domestic felid species
PaperThis comparative study applied trait ratings to multiple felid species, including domestic cats, African lions, snow leopards, clouded leopards, and Scottish wildcats, to ask whether personality dimen…
Marieke Gartner, David Powell, Alexander Weiss · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2014
Research overview: allonursing and cooperative care in felids
OverviewAllonursing, the nursing of non-offspring, is best documented in lions but reported in other group-living or colonial felid contexts, including domestic cat colonies. This overview surveys research on…
Research overview: cooperation and its limits across the cat family
OverviewCooperation is rare among felids, concentrated in the social lion and in cheetah and feral-cat male coalitions, making the family a useful contrast for theories of cooperation. This overview surveys r…
Research overview: quantity discrimination and numerical ability in cats
OverviewNumerical cognition has been studied extensively in birds and primates, and a smaller body of work asks whether cats discriminate quantities. This overview surveys experiments testing whether cats can…
The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife mortality
PaperThis widely cited quantitative synthesis estimated that free-ranging domestic cats in the contiguous United States kill billions of birds and tens of billions of mammals annually, with unowned cats re…
Scott Loss, Tom Will, Peter Marra · Nature Communications · 2013