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Barlow and colleagues applied a structured action-selection framework to prioritise interventions for reducing human-tiger conflict in the Bangladesh Sundarbans, where tigers kill people and straying…

Adam C. D. Barlow, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2010

Negroes and colleagues estimated puma density in the central Brazilian Cerrado using camera traps, confronting the difficulty of individually identifying pumas from their relatively unmarked coats by…

Nuno Negroes, Peter Sarmento, Joao Cruz, Catarina Eira, Erica Revilla, et al. · Journal of Wildlife Management · 2010

Drawing on long-term study of individually known Serengeti and Ngorongoro lions, this paper characterized exposure to a suite of pathogens including canine distemper virus, feline immunodeficiency vir…

C. Packer, S. Altizer, M. Appel, et al. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1999

Miller investigated how zoo visitors interpret stereotypic pacing, showing them footage of an animal pacing versus behaving normally and surveying their reactions. Visitors who saw pacing rated the an…

Miller LJ · Zoo Biology · 2012

Davey reviewed the evidence on how the presence, number and behaviour of visitors affect captive zoo animals. He found that visitors can act as a source of stress, enrichment or both depending on spec…

Davey G · Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science · 2007

Miklosi and colleagues compared how cats and dogs use and respond to human visual communicative signals, particularly pointing gestures indicating hidden food. Both species could follow human pointing…

Adam Miklosi, Peter Pongracz, Gabriella Lakatos, Jozsef Topal, Vilmos Csanyi · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2005

Saito and Shinozuka used a habituation-dishabituation design to ask whether cats distinguish their owner's voice from strangers' voices. Cats heard recordings of three strangers calling the cat's name…

Atsuko Saito, Kazutaka Shinozuka · Animal Cognition · 2013

McShea and colleagues described the eMammal model, in which trained volunteers operate camera traps across broad regions and contribute expertly verified images to a centralized, standardized data rep…

William J. McShea, Tavis Forrester, Robert Costello, Zhihai He, Roland Kays · Landscape Ecology · 2016

This landmark assessment modeled how upslope movement of the alpine treeline under warming could shrink the snow leopard's alpine and subalpine habitat across the Himalaya. Using climate envelopes and…

Forrest, J.L., Wikramanayake, E., Shrestha, R., Areendran, G., Gyeltshen, K., Maheshwari, A., Mazumdar, S., Naidoo, R., Thapa, G.J., Thapa, K. · Biological Conservation · 2012

Researchers tracked litters of kittens to examine how the timing of weaning relates to changes in play. As mothers reduced nursing, kittens increased object-directed and predatory play while social pl…

Paul Martin, Patrick Bateson · Animal Behaviour · 1985

To test the common claim that cats are aloof, researchers offered both shelter and pet cats a choice among four stimulus categories: social interaction with a human, food, toy, and scent. After a depr…

Kristyn Vitale Shreve, Lindsay Mehrkam, Monique Udell · Behavioural Processes · 2017

Rovero, Zimmermann, Berzi, and Meek provided a practical review answering the questions newcomers most often ask: what kind of camera to buy and how many to deploy. They compared camera features such…

Francesco Rovero, Fridolin Zimmermann, Duccio Berzi, Paul Meek · Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy · 2013

Mason, Clubb, Latham and Vickery reviewed the evidence that environmental enrichment reduces stereotypies, and found the picture more nuanced than commonly assumed. Across studies, enrichment often re…

Mason G, Clubb R, Latham N, Vickery S · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 2007

This widely cited study tested why pupil shape varies so systematically across animals, finding a strong link between vertical-slit pupils and a terrestrial, ambush-predator lifestyle, exemplified by…

Martin S. Banks, William W. Sprague, Jurgen Schmoll, Jared A. Q. Parnell, Gordon D. Love · Science Advances · 2015

This influential analysis asked what selective pressures favour group living in lions, testing whether shared hunting and prey capture alone could explain sociality. Long-term Serengeti and Ngorongoro…

Craig Packer, David Scheel, Anne Pusey · The American Naturalist · 1990

Testing the long-held idea that lions live in groups to hunt large prey more efficiently, this study compared the per-capita food intake of females in groups of different sizes. The data showed that s…

Packer, C., Scheel, D., Pusey, A. E. · The American Naturalist · 1990

This study from the Urban Caracal Project documented extensive exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides among caracals and other predators in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Screening showed that mo…

Serieys LEK, Bishop J, Okes N, Broadfield J, Winterton DJ, Poppenga RH, Viljoen S, Wayne RK, ORiain MJ · Science of the Total Environment · 2019

Hediger, often called the father of zoo biology, wrote this seminal book establishing that captive animals have psychological as well as physical needs. He introduced concepts such as flight distance,…

Hediger H · Butterworths Scientific Publications · 1950

Sunquist and Sunquist's comprehensive reference compiles the natural history, ecology and behavior of all wild felid species, with extensive treatment of diet, prey selection, hunting modes and predat…

Sunquist, M. & Sunquist, F. · University of Chicago Press · 2002

This single-volume monograph covers every living cat species with accounts of taxonomy, morphology, ecology, and conservation, and it remains a touchstone for enthusiasts and researchers alike. This e…

Sunquist M, Sunquist F · University of Chicago Press · 2002

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

Ahumada and colleagues described Wildlife Insights, a cloud-based platform built by a consortium of conservation organizations and technology partners to store, manage, share, and analyze camera-trap…

Jorge A. Ahumada, Eric Fegraus, Tanya Birch, Nicole Flores, Roland Kays, et al. · Environmental Conservation · 2020

Burton and colleagues synthesized the rapidly expanding camera-trap literature, evaluating how studies define their sampling, handle detection, and connect raw detections to the ecological quantities…

A. Cole Burton, Eric Neilson, Dario Moreira, Andrew Ladle, Robin Steenweg, et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2015

Riley and Decker introduced and applied the concept of wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC) to cougars in Montana, measuring the maximum cougar population level that residents would tolerat…

Shawn J. Riley, Daniel J. Decker · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 2000

Vinke, Godijn and van der Leij tested whether giving newly admitted shelter cats a simple hiding box reduces stress. Cats provided with a hiding box showed significantly lower Cat-Stress-Scores and fa…

Vinke CM, Godijn LM, van der Leij WJR · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 2014

Fortin and colleagues used step-selection functions to show that elk in Yellowstone altered their fine-scale movement decisions in response to wolf predation risk, avoiding risky habitats such as open…

Daniel Fortin, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Mark S. Boyce, Douglas W. Smith, Thierry Duchesne, Julie S. Mao · Ecology · 2005

This paper introduced and named the landscape of fear concept, arguing that prey perceive their habitat as a spatially varying map of predation risk that shapes where and how they forage. Using elk an…

Laundre, J.W., Hernandez, L. & Altendorf, K.B. · Canadian Journal of Zoology · 2001

This broad serosurvey screened many nondomestic felid species across the world for antibodies to feline immunodeficiency virus-like lentiviruses. The authors found widespread seroprevalence in free-ra…

J. D. Olmsted, A. Barr, R. A. Hess, et al. · Journal of Virology · 1992

Maple and Perdue's book provided a comprehensive treatment of welfare science as applied to zoos and aquariums, covering its history, ethical foundations, assessment methods and practical application…

Maple TL, Perdue BM · Springer (Animal Welfare series) · 2013

Calabrese, Fleming, and Gurarie released ctmm, an R package that treats telemetry data as samples from an underlying continuous-time movement process rather than a set of discrete points. The software…

Justin M. Calabrese, Christen H. Fleming, Eliezer Gurarie · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2016