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Individual behaviors dominate dynamics of an urban mountain lion population isolated by roads
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This study combined GPS tracking and genetics to show how major roads isolate a mountain lion population in the Santa Monica Mountains, with freeways acting as near-total barriers to movement. The aut…
Riley, S.P.D., Serieys, L.E.K., Pollinger, J.P., Sikich, J.A., Dalbeck, L., Wayne, R.K., Ernest, H.B. · Current Biology · 2014
Individual behaviors dominate the dynamics of an urban mountain lion population isolated by roads
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Riley and colleagues used GPS telemetry and genetics to show that the small puma population in the Santa Monica Mountains was severely isolated by surrounding freeways, with the 101 in particular near…
Seth P. D. Riley, Laurel E. K. Serieys, John P. Pollinger, Jeffrey A. Sikich, Lisa Dalbeck, Robert K. Wayne, Holly B. Ernest · Current Biology · 2014
Inheritance of the catnip response in domestic cats
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This early genetic study examined the familiar but variable reaction of cats to catnip and proposed that responsiveness is an inherited trait. By observing the catnip response across cats and consider…
Neil B. Todd · Journal of Heredity · 1962
Initial Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Cat Genome
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This paper reported the first draft genome of the domestic cat, sequenced at modest coverage from an Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon. Despite the light sequencing, the authors leveraged comparative mapp…
Joan U. Pontius, Stephen J. O'Brien, et al. · Genome Research · 2007
Insights and approaches using deep learning to classify wildlife
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Miao and colleagues trained deep convolutional neural networks to classify species in camera-trap images from an African dataset and, importantly, used interpretability techniques to probe what featur…
Zhongqi Miao, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Jiayun Wang, Ziwei Liu, Oliver Muellerklein, et al. · Scientific Reports · 2019
Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks
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Williams and colleagues built custom SMART collars combining GPS, accelerometers, and physiological calibration to measure, for the first time, the moment-to-moment energy expenditure of wild pumas as…
Terrie M. Williams, Lisa Wolfe, Tracy Davis, Traci Kendall, Beau Richter, Yiwei Wang, Caleb Bryce, G. Hugh Elkaim, Christopher C. Wilmers · Science · 2014
Intact carcasses as enrichment for large felids: effects on on- and off-exhibit behaviors
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McPhee tested whether feeding whole, intact carcasses rather than processed meat changes the behaviour of large captive cats. Providing carcasses increased feeding-related and active behaviours and al…
McPhee ME · Zoo Biology · 2002
Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement
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Avgar and colleagues developed integrated step selection analysis, which simultaneously estimates habitat selection and the animal's underlying movement kernel, the distribution of step lengths and tu…
Tal Avgar, Jonathan R. Potts, Mark A. Lewis, Mark S. Boyce · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2016
Interacting effects of climate change, landscape conversion, and harvest on lynx at the range margin
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This influential modeling study examined Canada lynx and American marten at the southern edge of their range in the northern Appalachians, asking how climate warming, forest conversion, and trapping p…
Carroll, C. · Conservation Biology · 2007
Interspecific killing among mammalian carnivores
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Palomares and Caro compiled and analyzed the global record of carnivores killing other carnivores, establishing intraguild predation as a widespread structuring force. They showed that interspecific k…
Palomares, F. & Caro, T.M. · The American Naturalist · 1999
Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss
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Doherty and colleagues assessed the contribution of invasive predators, prominently including feral cats, to global vertebrate extinctions and declines. Analyzing threatened and extinct species worldw…
Tim S. Doherty, Alistair S. Glen, Dale G. Nimmo, Euan G. Ritchie, Chris R. Dickman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016
Iriomote and Tsushima cats share the leopard cat mitochondrial lineage
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This molecular study compared the mitochondrial DNA of Japan's two wild cats, the Iriomote cat and the Tsushima cat, with that of the mainland leopard cat and found that both belong to the same lineag…
Masuda R, Yoshida MC · Zoological Science · 1995
Island-wide assessment of Sumatran tigers in rainforest landscapes
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This large-scale study assessed Sumatran tiger occupancy across the island, linking tiger presence to forest cover, elevation, and protection status. By compiling extensive survey data, the authors ma…
Wibisono, H.T., Linkie, M., Guillera-Arroita, G., Smith, J.A., Sunarto, S., Pusparini, W., et al. · PLoS ONE · 2011
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic virus from domestic cats with an immunodeficiency-like syndrome
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This landmark study isolated a novel lentivirus from a California cattery where cats showed chronic, AIDS-like immunodeficiency with opportunistic infections and wasting. The team recovered a T-lympho…
Pedersen NC, Ho EW, Brown ML, Yamamoto JK · Science · 1987
Kernel methods for estimating the utilization distribution in home-range studies
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Worton introduced kernel density estimation to home-range analysis, providing a way to estimate the utilization distribution, a probability surface describing how intensively an animal uses each part…
Bruce J. Worton · Ecology · 1989
Landscape structure and asymmetrical inter-patch connectivity in a metapopulation of the endangered Iberian lynx
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Ferreras analyzed how landscape structure governs movement between habitat patches in the Iberian lynx metapopulation of Donana and surrounding areas, showing that connectivity was asymmetrical, dispe…
Pablo Ferreras · Biological Conservation · 2001
Large predators and their prey: a predator's size determines its prey size range
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Radloff and Du Toit analyzed the southern African large-carnivore guild to show that a predator's body mass sets both the average and the upper limit of the prey sizes it takes. Larger predators such…
Radloff, F.G.T. & Du Toit, J.T. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2004
Leopards provide public health benefits by preying on free-ranging dogs in Mumbai
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This study quantified an unexpected ecosystem service delivered by leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park inside greater Mumbai. By modelling leopard diet, in which feral and stray dogs form…
Braczkowski AR, OBryan CJ, Stringer MJ, Watson JEM, Possingham HP, Beyer HL · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018
Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India
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Braczkowski and colleagues modelled the ecological and public-health role of leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park within Mumbai, where the cats prey heavily on free-ranging dogs in surround…
Alexander R. Braczkowski, et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018
Lethal control of African lions: local and regional population impacts
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Woodroffe and Frank examined how retaliatory and preemptive killing of lions on Kenyan rangelands affects populations at local and regional scales. Combining mortality records with spatial analysis ar…
Rosie Woodroffe, Laurence G. Frank · Animal Conservation · 2005
Limitation of African wild dogs by competition with larger carnivores
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Creel and Creel demonstrated that African wild dog populations are limited not by prey scarcity but by competition with lions and spotted hyenas, which kill dogs and steal their kills. Analyzing demog…
Creel, S. & Creel, N.M. · Conservation Biology · 1996
Limiting depredation by African carnivores: the role of livestock husbandry
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Ogada and colleagues conducted a controlled comparison of husbandry practices on Laikipia ranches in Kenya to identify which measures reduce predation by lions, leopards, hyenas, and cheetahs. By corr…
Maurice O. Ogada, Rosie Woodroffe, Nicholas O. Oguge, Laurence G. Frank · Conservation Biology · 2003
Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion
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Ripple and Beschta documented a striking felid-driven trophic cascade by contrasting heavily visited Zion Canyon, where human presence depressed cougars, with a nearby low-visitation canyon where coug…
Ripple, W.J. & Beschta, R.L. · Biological Conservation · 2006
Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and regeneration in Zion
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This study compared a canyon in Zion National Park, where heavy human visitation had driven cougars away, with a less-visited canyon where cougars remained. Where cougars were scarce, mule deer were f…
Ripple, W. J., Beschta, R. L. · Biological Conservation · 2006
Lion Populations Are Declining Rapidly Across Most of Africa
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This continental assessment combined population data from across Africa to show that lion numbers have fallen sharply in most regions, with West, Central, and East African populations in steep decline…
Bauer H, Chapron G, Nowell K, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015
Lion attacks on humans in Tanzania
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Packer and colleagues analysed more than 800 lion attacks on people across rural Tanzania between 1990 and 2004, one of the largest quantitative datasets on big-cat predation on humans. They found att…
Craig Packer, Dennis Ikanda, Bernard Kissui, Hadas Kushnir · Nature · 2005
Lions and warriors: social factors underlying declining lion populations and incentive management
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Hazzah, Borgerhoff Mulder, and Frank investigated the social and economic drivers of lion killing among Maasai communities near Amboseli, Kenya, and assessed an incentive-based compensation scheme. Th…
Leela Hazzah, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Laurence Frank · Biological Conservation · 2009
Livestock predation and vulnerability to retaliatory killing in the Maasai steppe
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Kissui quantified livestock losses to lions, leopards, and spotted hyenas across Maasai households in northern Tanzania and linked those losses to retaliatory killing of carnivores. Using household su…
Bernard M. Kissui · Animal Conservation · 2008
Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard
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Bagchi and Mishra quantified snow leopard predation on livestock in the Spiti region of the Indian trans-Himalaya, combining diet analysis with herder-reported losses to assess the predator's reliance…
Sumanta Bagchi, Charudutt Mishra · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard
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Bagchi and Mishra studied snow leopard diet and livestock depredation in India's Spiti region, linking the cat's reliance on wild prey to its use of domestic stock. Through scat analysis they showed t…
Bagchi, S. & Mishra, C. · Journal of Zoology · 2006

Individual behaviors dominate dynamics of an urban mountain lion population isolated by roads

Individual behaviors dominate the dynamics of an urban mountain lion population isolated by roads

Inheritance of the catnip response in domestic cats

Initial Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Cat Genome

Insights and approaches using deep learning to classify wildlife

Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks

Intact carcasses as enrichment for large felids: effects on on- and off-exhibit behaviors

Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement

Interacting effects of climate change, landscape conversion, and harvest on lynx at the range margin

Interspecific killing among mammalian carnivores

Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss

Iriomote and Tsushima cats share the leopard cat mitochondrial lineage

Island-wide assessment of Sumatran tigers in rainforest landscapes

Isolation of a T-lymphotropic virus from domestic cats with an immunodeficiency-like syndrome

Kernel methods for estimating the utilization distribution in home-range studies

Landscape structure and asymmetrical inter-patch connectivity in a metapopulation of the endangered Iberian lynx

Large predators and their prey: a predator's size determines its prey size range

Leopards provide public health benefits by preying on free-ranging dogs in Mumbai

Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India

Lethal control of African lions: local and regional population impacts

Limitation of African wild dogs by competition with larger carnivores

Limiting depredation by African carnivores: the role of livestock husbandry

Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion

Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and regeneration in Zion

Lion Populations Are Declining Rapidly Across Most of Africa

Lion attacks on humans in Tanzania

Lions and warriors: social factors underlying declining lion populations and incentive management

Livestock predation and vulnerability to retaliatory killing in the Maasai steppe

Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard

Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard