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Amur tigers inhabit the cold temperate forests of the Russian Far East, where low prey density forces them to range over enormous areas. This overview reviews radio-telemetry and GPS studies showing t…

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…

The Andean cat is one of the world's rarest and least-known felids, a small cat of the high Andes and Patagonian steppe whose study depends heavily on camera traps. This overview surveys the difficult…

The Andean cat is one of the rarest and least known cats, restricted to high-elevation habitats of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, and to adjacent high-steppe of Patagonia. This over…

Genetic research has been pivotal for studying the Andean cat, and this overview reviews its contributions. Because field detection is so difficult, scientists have relied on DNA from scats and other…

The Andean cat is a rare, specialized felid of the high Andes and Patagonian steppe, dependent on rocky terrain and prey such as mountain vizcachas. This overview surveys what is known about its restr…

The Andean cat appears to be a specialist predator of mountain vizcachas, colonial rodents of rocky high-Andean slopes, and this overview reviews the evidence and its implications. Diet studies and th…

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…

The worlds only wild Asiatic lions live in and around Gir in Gujarat, India, where their expanding population increasingly occupies agricultural land, villages and the periphery of towns. This overvie…

This overview surveys human-lion coexistence in India's Gir landscape, the last refuge of the Asiatic lion, where pastoralist Maldhari communities graze livestock within and around the protected fores…

The catastrophic Australian bushfires generated intensive research on wildlife impacts and recovery, advancing methods later applied elsewhere, and they highlighted the role of feral cats as a post-fi…

This overview surveys the Barbourofelidae, a group of sabertooth-bearing carnivores, including the formidable Barbourofelis, that represent yet another independent acquisition of the sabertooth form d…

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES, governs cross-border trade in wildlife, and the world's big cats are listed on its Appendix I, banning commercial international trad…

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…

Camtrap DP (Camera Trap Data Package) is a community data-exchange standard that defines a consistent structure for organizing deployments, media, and observations, enabling camera-trap datasets to be…

The Canada lynx is exquisitely adapted to hunting in deep snow, and this overview reviews the traits behind that specialization. Very large, well-furred paws act as snowshoes, spreading the cat weight…

The Canada lynx is among the most striking examples of a specialist predator coupled to a single prey, and this overview reviews the classic lynx-hare cycle. Across the boreal forest, lynx populations…

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…

A survey of how the distribution and southern range limit of Canada lynx are governed by the availability and dynamics of snowshoe hares. Lynx are tightly tied to boreal forests where hares are abunda…

This overview examines the southern range limit of the Canada lynx and its vulnerability to climate change. The species is closely tied to boreal forest with deep, persistent snow and abundant snowsho…

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…

Cytauxzoon felis is a tick-transmitted protozoan that causes a frequently fatal disease in domestic cats, with bobcats serving as the natural reservoir host. This overview synthesizes the parasite’s l…

An overview of how molecular analysis of prey DNA in faeces is transforming the study of cat diets. By sequencing prey genetic material recovered from scats, researchers can identify prey to species w…

Beyond scientific monitoring, dedicated wildlife photographers build custom DSLR camera-trap rigs to capture high-resolution, artfully lit images of elusive cats in their natural environment. This ove…

This overview examines Dinofelis, a leopard-to-jaguar-sized cat of the Pliocene and early Pleistocene placed among the Metailurini, whose moderately enlarged, flattened canines mark it as an intermedi…

By the early 2000s the Iberian lynx survived in just two isolated populations, in Doñana and the eastern Sierra Morena of southern Spain, each small, fragmented, and at acute risk of extinction. This…

The Iberian lynx recovery was sustained by a series of large, multi-year conservation projects supported substantially by the European Union's LIFE program, which financed breeding, reintroduction, ha…

Every camera-trap image carries embedded metadata, timestamps, camera settings, and sometimes temperature or moon phase, and the integrity of this information is foundational to nearly all analysis. T…

This overview surveys what is known about cats in ancient Egypt, where they were associated with the goddess Bastet and produced in vast numbers as votive mummies. Excavations at sites such as Bubasti…

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…