🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

The Florida panther, an isolated cougar population confined to the southern tip of Florida, depends on a shrinking, fragmented landscape threaded by highways and expanding development. This overview s…

This overview examines Friesenhahn Cave in Texas, a remarkable site that has shaped interpretations of Homotherium hunting behaviour. The cave yielded numerous remains of the scimitar cat alongside an…

This overview reviews the development of geographic information system (GIS) databases and surveillance systems that systematically record big-cat conflict incidents for analysis and management. It sy…

High-resolution GPS tracking combined with accelerometers and other biologgers has transformed the study of how felids behave near people, enabling fine-scale analysis of movement, activity, energetic…

Every GPS collar embodies a compromise: more frequent fixes reveal finer movement detail but drain the battery faster, shortening the tracking period. This overview examines how researchers schedule f…

Raw telemetry data contain implausible points, fixes computed from too few satellites, signal multipath, or transmission glitches, that can corrupt analyses if left in. This overview surveys screening…

Lightweight GPS devices have allowed researchers to map where pet cats actually go when allowed outdoors, revealing often-surprising ranges and patterns. This overview surveys tracking studies across…

This overview synthesizes a body of GPS-telemetry research that transformed understanding of puma ecology by intensively visiting location clusters to study predation, competition, and social behavior…

An overview of how the advent of GPS telemetry transformed estimation of kill rates for solitary cats such as pumas, leopards and lynx. The approach identifies spatial clusters of frequent locations,…

GPS-collaring of fishing cats in Colombo has revealed how individuals thread through a labyrinth of canals, marsh fragments, gardens and roads, exposing the connectivity needs of a wetland predator in…

The Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program, GSLEP, is an intergovernmental initiative uniting the twelve snow leopard range countries around a shared conservation agenda, including a goa…

Geoffroys cat reaches relatively high densities in parts of its range, making it one of the more abundant small cats in southern South America, and this overview reviews the research behind this. Came…

Dietary studies describe Geoffroys cat as a generalist predator of small vertebrates, taking rodents, birds, hares, reptiles, and occasionally fish and insects according to local availability. This ov…

Geoffroys cat is a small, adaptable felid of southern South America, ranging across Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. This overview compiles records describing its occ…

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist implants offer a reversible method of suppressing reproduction in cats by downregulating the reproductive axis after an initial stimulation. This overview survey…

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone and its agonists are used to induce ovulation in cats by stimulating the pituitary to release luteinizing hormone, substituting for the natural mating stimulus. This ove…

Captive cheetahs suffer unusually high rates of chronic gastritis associated with Helicobacter infection, a condition far more severe than in most other felids and a significant cause of morbidity in…

Hepatozoon is a tick-associated protozoan parasite, transmitted not by tick bite but by ingestion of infected ticks, that commonly infects wild felids including lions. This overview surveys the biolog…

This overview examines community ecotourism initiatives, notably the Himalayan Homestays program in Ladakh, designed to convert snow leopards from a liability into an economic asset for herding househ…

This overview surveys evidence that the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium reached South America, expanding its already vast range across the Americas. Fossil discoveries, including material reported fr…

This overview surveys Homotherium, the scimitar-toothed sabercat whose fossils span North America, Eurasia, and Africa, making it one of the most widely distributed of all machairodonts. Distinguished…

This overview surveys Hyperailurictis, the name applied to the North American Pseudaelurus-grade cats that represent the first true felids to colonize the continent after the cat gap. Arriving from Eu…

Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State bisects forested habitat in the Cascade Range, and an extensive program of wildlife overpasses and underpasses has been built to restore movement…

The International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) staging system standardized how feline chronic kidney disease (CKD) is classified, using blood creatinine, and later SDMA, to define stages, with substa…

This overview synthesises the international guidance developed under the IUCN's human-wildlife conflict and coexistence efforts, which distil principles and good practice for managing conflict involvi…

The recovery of the Iberian lynx rests heavily on a coordinated captive-breeding and reintroduction program, and this overview reviews its components. Captive centers in Spain and Portugal have bred l…

The Iberian lynx is an extreme dietary specialist, relying on the European rabbit for the great majority of its diet, and this overview reviews the consequences of that dependence. Where rabbits are a…

The Iberian lynx, once the world's most endangered cat, has been the subject of intensive telemetry as part of a celebrated recovery program in Spain and Portugal. This overview describes how GPS coll…

The Iberian lynx, once the world most endangered cat, has staged a remarkable recovery, and this overview reviews its changing distribution. Reduced to a few hundred animals in two isolated population…

Having passed through a severe bottleneck, the Iberian lynx carries low genetic diversity and signs of inbreeding, especially in the historically isolated Doñana population. This overview surveys cons…