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Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguar in the Pantanal of Brazil
PaperZimmermann, Walpole, and Leader-Williams surveyed cattle ranchers across the Brazilian Pantanal to understand attitudes toward jaguars and pumas amid livestock depredation. They found that ranchers fr…
Alexandra Zimmermann, Matthew J. Walpole, Nigel Leader-Williams · Oryx · 2005
Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide
ReviewInskip and Zimmermann produced a comprehensive global review of conflict between people and wild cats, synthesising the geography, drivers, and severity of conflict across all felid species. They iden…
Chloe Inskip, Alexandra Zimmermann · Oryx · 2009
Research overview: corridors, connectivity, and conflict at movement bottlenecks
OverviewThis overview synthesises how habitat corridors and connectivity shape big-cat conflict, focusing on the tension between maintaining predator movement and the conflict that arises where corridors pass…
Research overview: future directions in human-big cat coexistence research
OverviewThis overview synthesises emerging priorities and frontiers in human-big cat conflict and coexistence research. It reviews calls for more rigorous impact evaluation, greater integration of social scie…
Research overview: habituation and the limits of sensory deterrents for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises evidence on why deterrents, lights, sirens, scent, and visual scarecrows, often lose effectiveness as predators habituate. It examines the behavioural ecology of neophobia an…
Research overview: jaguar and puma coexistence with smallholders in Mesoamerica
OverviewThis overview reviews human-felid conflict involving both jaguars and pumas across smallholder and indigenous landscapes of Central America, where the two cats overlap and complicate attribution of li…
Research overview: landscape and husbandry predictors of livestock depredation
OverviewThis overview synthesises studies identifying which landscape and management variables predict where big cats kill livestock, a recurring quantitative question across conflict research. It reviews con…
Research overview: natural prey depletion and jaguar-puma livestock depredation
OverviewThis overview synthesises evidence linking the depletion of natural prey, peccaries, deer, capybara, guanaco, to increased jaguar and puma depredation on livestock across the Americas. It reviews stud…
Research overview: perceived versus actual losses in jaguar and puma conflict
OverviewThis overview synthesises studies across Latin America comparing ranchers' perceived livestock losses to jaguars and pumas with verified depredation, a recurring theme in big-cat conflict. It reviews…
Research overview: risk perception versus actual risk in big-cat conflict
OverviewThis overview examines the persistent gap between perceived and actual risk in human-big cat conflict, a theme cutting across lion, tiger, leopard, puma, and jaguar systems. It synthesises research sh…
Research overview: spatial zoning and land-use planning for carnivore coexistence
OverviewThis overview reviews how spatial zoning, separating core predator habitat, buffer zones, and human-use areas, and broader land-use planning can structure coexistence with big cats. It synthesises app…
Research overview: tourism benefits and their effect on tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on whether wildlife-tourism revenue increases local tolerance for big cats by offsetting conflict costs. It reviews cases from jaguar tourism in the Pantanal, lion t…
Research overview: water buffalo and anti-predation husbandry against jaguars
OverviewThis overview reviews husbandry interventions promoted to reduce jaguar and puma depredation on cattle in the Venezuelan llanos and elsewhere, including the use of water buffalo, which form defensive…