🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

This overview examines bobcat activity, which research generally describes as crepuscular with substantial nocturnal and some diurnal movement, flexibly tuned to prey activity, season, and human distu…

The bobcat is a versatile predator, and this overview synthesizes diet studies showing rabbits and hares as the dietary mainstay across much of the range, supplemented by rodents, birds, reptiles, and…

The bobcat is the most widespread wild cat in North America, ranging from southern Canada through the United States into Mexico across an extraordinary variety of habitats. This overview compiles reco…

The bobcat is harvested for fur across much of its range, and this overview reviews the science underpinning its management. Wildlife agencies use harvest records, age and reproductive data, and popul…

This overview examines bobcat spatial ecology, drawn from extensive telemetry research. Bobcats maintain home ranges that vary widely with prey density, habitat, and sex, with males ranging more widel…

Research in human-influenced landscapes has revealed a troubling link between anticoagulant rodenticides and severe mange in bobcats, and this overview reviews it. Bobcats accumulate rodenticides by e…

Bobcats increasingly occupy urban and suburban environments, and this overview reviews research on these populations. GPS-tracking studies in metropolitan areas document bobcats using remnant natural…

Camera trapping has transformed the study of small wildcats, and this overview reviews how the method is applied and its limitations. Remote cameras detect cryptic, nocturnal cats without direct obser…

Telemetry studies describe the caracal as largely nocturnal and crepuscular, shifting toward stricter night activity where humans are present and showing more daytime movement in undisturbed or cooler…

Dietary research portrays the caracal as a powerful, versatile predator able to take prey from small rodents to antelope several times its own weight. This overview synthesizes scat and kill studies i…

The caracal occupies one of the largest ranges of any small cat, spanning much of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and southwest and central Asia into India. This overview compiles distributional studie…

Across parts of Southern Africa and the Middle East, caracals are killed in large numbers as suspected predators of sheep and goats. This overview reviews studies quantifying the species role in lives…

The caracal muscular build, long hind limbs, and short tail equip it for explosive bursts and remarkable vertical leaps, and this overview reviews how form translates to function. Field and captive ob…

Few cats are as difficult to study as the sand cat, and this overview reviews the methodological problems that leave its status uncertain. The species low density, nocturnality, remote desert habitat,…

This overview examines clouded leopard activity, which camera-trap studies generally describe as nocturnal and crepuscular, with some daytime movement, and a strong association with forest cover at al…

Clouded leopards are among the most accomplished climbers of all cats, and this overview reviews the adaptations behind their arboreal skill. Like the margay, they possess highly flexible ankle joints…

Clouded leopards possess the largest canine teeth relative to skull size of any living cat, and this overview reviews the morphology and its implications. The long upper canines and wide gape have inv…

Captive management of clouded leopards has been notably challenging, and this overview reviews research aimed at improving it. Breeding programs have struggled with mate aggression, in which males may…

Dietary information for clouded leopards, drawn from scattered observations, scat, and prey remains, indicates a broad diet spanning arboreal and terrestrial prey. This overview synthesizes records of…

Clouded leopards occupy forests from the Himalayan foothills and northeast India through Southeast Asia, with a distinct species on Borneo and Sumatra. This overview compiles records describing their…

Conservation of the Andean cat has been coordinated through international collaboration spanning the four range countries, and this overview reviews its approach. By pooling researchers and local part…

The remote, transnational range of Pallass cat has spurred coordinated research efforts, and this overview reviews their contribution. Collaborative initiatives bringing together field biologists, zoo…

This overview compares the four lynx species, the Eurasian, Canada, Iberian, and the bobcat, highlighting how a shared body plan has diversified across habitats and prey. All share short tails, ear tu…

Genetic tools have become central to small-cat conservation, and this overview reviews their applications. Non-invasive sampling of scats and hair allows researchers to confirm the presence of cryptic…

Genetic research has revealed that the oncilla comprises more than one species, and this overview reviews this taxonomic complexity. Molecular studies showed that populations long treated as a single…

The Andean cat holds deep cultural significance for Andean peoples, and this overview reviews how that intersects with conservation. The cat features in traditional Andean belief as a sacred animal as…

Few cats are harder to study than the Andean cat, and this overview reviews the methods used to detect it. Its rarity, remote high-altitude habitat, and similarity to the sympatric Pampas cat long mad…

Pallass cats are notably vulnerable to certain pathogens, and this overview reviews veterinary research on the problem, especially toxoplasmosis. In captivity, kittens suffer high mortality from Toxop…

This overview examines the activity and ranging behavior of the fishing cat, drawn from telemetry and camera-trap studies. The species is predominantly nocturnal and crepuscular, concentrating activit…

True to its name, the fishing cat is among the most piscivorous of felids, and this overview synthesizes diet studies confirming that fish form a major part of its diet, supplemented by rodents, birds…