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To hunt or not to hunt? A feeding enrichment experiment with captive large felids
PaperBashaw, Bloomsmith, Maple and Bercovitch tested whether feeding-based enrichment changes behaviour in tigers and lions, comparing a hung carcass-like 'fishing' device and bones against standard feedin…
Bashaw MJ, Bloomsmith MA, Maple TL, Bercovitch FB · Zoo Biology · 2003
Tooth breakage and dental disease as causes of carnivore-human conflicts
PaperThis study examined the long-standing hypothesis that dental injury drives big cats to hunt humans and livestock, using the Tsavo and Mfuwe man-eating lion specimens. The authors documented severe too…
Bruce D. Patterson, Ellis J. Neiburger, Samuel M. Kasiki · Journal of Mammalogy · 2003
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth
PaperThis influential synthesis argued that the loss of large apex consumers, including big cats and other top predators, is among humanity's most pervasive impacts on nature. Drawing on examples across ec…
Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., et al. · Science · 2011
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth
ReviewEstes and a large group of coauthors synthesized evidence that the loss of apex consumers, including big cats, is among humanity's most pervasive influences on nature. The review marshaled cases acros…
Estes, J.A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J.S. et al. · Science · 2011
Viruses of the Serengeti: patterns of infection and mortality in African lions
PaperDrawing 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
Why lions form groups: food is not enough
PaperThis 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
Why lions form groups: food is not enough
PaperTesting 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
Wild Cats of the World: a synthesis of felid ecology
ReviewThis 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
Worldwide prevalence of lentivirus infection in wild feline species: epidemiologic and phylogenetic aspects
PaperThis 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