🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

This overview synthesizes telemetry research on African lion movement and pride ranging, drawing on long-term projects such as the Oxford-led study in and around Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. GPS co…

This overview synthesizes telemetry research on Amur, or Siberian, tigers in the Russian Far East, where GPS collars have revealed enormous home ranges, long movements through snow-bound boreal forest…

This overview synthesizes decades of telemetry on Amur tigers in the temperate forests of the Russian Far East, where long-term collaring programs have revealed enormous home ranges, seasonal movement…

Before GPS collars became affordable, the Argos satellite system offered the first way to track animals that roamed beyond the reach of ground crews. Argos estimated a transmitter's position from the…

During COVID-19 lockdowns, reports emerged worldwide of wildlife, including pumas, venturing into emptied urban areas, and this overview examines what such incursions suggest about felid responses to…

Canada lynx are tightly bound to snowshoe hares, whose populations cycle dramatically over roughly ten years, and this overview examines how lynx movement tracks these boom-and-bust dynamics. When har…

Cecil was a male lion fitted with a GPS collar as part of a long-term Oxford-led research project in and around Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, whose illegal killing by a trophy hunter in 2015 drew wo…

El Jefe was a male jaguar documented for years by remote cameras in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, one of very few jaguars recorded in the United States in recent decades. This overview des…

This overview synthesizes telemetry research on Eurasian lynx in the Alps and Scandinavia, where reintroduced and recovering populations have been studied to understand ranging, dispersal, and predati…

When Interstate 75 was extended across southern Florida as Alligator Alley, wildlife underpasses with continuous fencing were incorporated specifically to reduce roadkill of the endangered Florida pan…

The Florida panther, an isolated cougar population confined to the southern tip of Florida, depends on a shrinking, fragmented landscape threaded by highways and expanding development. This overview s…

Every GPS collar embodies a compromise: more frequent fixes reveal finer movement detail but drain the battery faster, shortening the tracking period. This overview examines how researchers schedule f…

Raw telemetry data contain implausible points, fixes computed from too few satellites, signal multipath, or transmission glitches, that can corrupt analyses if left in. This overview surveys screening…

This overview synthesizes a body of GPS-telemetry research that transformed understanding of puma ecology by intensively visiting location clusters to study predation, competition, and social behavior…

Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State bisects forested habitat in the Cascade Range, and an extensive program of wildlife overpasses and underpasses has been built to restore movement…

The Iberian lynx, once the world's most endangered cat, has been the subject of intensive telemetry as part of a celebrated recovery program in Spain and Portugal. This overview describes how GPS coll…

Macho B was a male jaguar photographed repeatedly over many years in southern Arizona, long considered the last known wild jaguar in the United States, until his capture, collaring, and subsequent dea…

As tracking generated ever-larger datasets, shared infrastructure became essential, and this overview describes how repositories such as Movebank let researchers store, manage, and selectively share a…

P-22 was a male puma collared by the National Park Service after he made an improbable journey across two of Los Angeles's busiest freeways, the 405 and the 101, to settle in tiny Griffith Park beside…

This overview describes the integrated collar architecture that combined GPS with an inertial measurement unit of accelerometers and magnetometers to study puma movement and energetics at fine resolut…

Even in the GPS era, VHF remains indispensable for one task: signaling death. This overview describes mortality-mode beacons that change pulse rate when a collar stops moving for a set interval, alert…

This overview describes how field teams located collared cats before satellite positioning existed, relying on VHF beacons and directional antennas. Ground observers took compass bearings from multipl…

This overview surveys how tri-axial acceleration data from collars are translated into behavioral states for cats, enabling activity budgets and the detection of key events like kills. Researchers typ…

Movement models can be turned around to simulate animals, generating virtual trajectories from estimated movement rules to predict population-level patterns. This overview describes agent-based and in…

Camera collars turn a tracked animal into a first-person observer, recording short video or still bursts that reveal behavior invisible to GPS dots. This overview describes how researchers have mounte…

Estimating snow leopard home ranges is especially vulnerable to the autocorrelation problem because dense GPS fixes from a slow-ranging mountain cat are highly correlated, and this overview examines t…

Classic home-range estimators assume that successive locations are statistically independent, an assumption that high-frequency GPS data violate flagrantly, since fixes minutes apart are highly correl…

The greatest source of variability in kernel home-range estimates is the smoothing bandwidth, and this overview surveys the competing approaches and their pitfalls. The reference bandwidth tends to ov…

Bobcats are the most widespread wild cat in North America and thrive in landscapes ranging from wilderness to suburban edges, and this overview synthesizes telemetry research on their movement through…

Cheetah social and spatial organization is unusual among cats: males often form lifelong coalitions, frequently of brothers, while females range solitarily over large areas, and this overview examines…