🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

Within their territories tigers select habitat features that aid stalking, provide shade, and offer water. This overview synthesizes telemetry and camera-trap studies showing that tigers favor dense c…

How often a tiger must kill depends on prey size, the cat's body mass, reproductive state, and competition at carcasses. This overview synthesizes GPS-cluster and observational studies estimating that…

Tigers are capable of killing very large prey, and their diet centers on medium to large ungulates wherever these are available. This overview synthesizes kill and scat studies showing that species su…

Where tigers and people share landscapes, conflict over livestock and occasional attacks on humans shapes both tiger survival and local attitudes. This overview synthesizes studies on the circumstance…

The tall-grass and riverine forest mosaic of the Terai along the Himalayan foothills supports some of the highest tiger densities on Earth. This overview reviews how the exceptional productivity of th…

The Sundarbans, a vast tidal mangrove forest straddling India and Bangladesh, hosts a tiger population unlike any other. This overview reviews how these tigers swim between islands, drink brackish or…

In many Asian forests tigers share the landscape with leopards and packs of dholes, the Asiatic wild dog, forming a guild that partitions prey and space. This overview synthesizes research on how thes…

Tigers use a repertoire of calls, including powerful roars rich in low-frequency and infrasonic energy that carry far through forest. This overview synthesizes research on how these vocalizations adve…

Based on radio-telemetry of tigers in the lowland forests and grasslands of Chitwan, Nepal, this study described how tigers partition space through a land-tenure system. Resident females held largely…

Sunquist, M. E. · Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology · 1981

Combining camera-trap density estimates with line-transect surveys of prey across multiple Indian reserves, this study demonstrated a strong relationship between the abundance of large ungulate prey a…

Karanth, K. U., Nichols, J. D., Kumar, N. S., Link, W. A., Hines, J. E. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004

This influential synthesis argued that the loss of large apex consumers, including big cats and other top predators, is among humanity's most pervasive impacts on nature. Drawing on examples across ec…

Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., et al. · Science · 2011

This comprehensive reference compiled the biology, ecology, and conservation status of all the world's wild cat species, from the great roaring cats to the smallest felids. Drawing together field stud…

Sunquist, M. E., Sunquist, F. C. · University of Chicago Press · 2002