🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

This landmark genetic study showed that a multi-lane freeway sharply restricted movement and gene flow in bobcats and coyotes in the fragmented hills north of Los Angeles. Combining radio-telemetry wi…

Riley SPD, Pollinger JP, Sauvajot RM, York EC, Bromley C, Fuller TK, Wayne RK · Molecular Ecology · 2006

Riley and colleagues combined radio-telemetry with genetic analysis of bobcats and coyotes split by a major Los Angeles freeway, showing that the road acted as both a physical and a social barrier to…

Seth P. D. Riley, John P. Pollinger, Raymond M. Sauvajot, Eric C. York, Cassity Bromley, Todd K. Fuller, Robert K. Wayne · Molecular Ecology · 2006

This study built a comprehensive, dated phylogeny of the order Carnivora, placing the Felidae within the broader carnivoran tree and providing divergence times for cats relative to their relatives. By…

Nyakatura K, Bininda-Emonds ORP · BMC Biology · 2012

This monographic revision examined the pampas cats of South America, a group then placed in the genus Lynchailurus, and analyzed their morphological variation and biogeography. The author documented s…

Garcia-Perea R · American Museum Novitates · 1994

This morphological revision used skull measurements and pelage to assess variation among mainland Southeast Asian tigers and supported recognition of the Malayan tiger as distinct from the Indochinese…

Mazak JH, Groves CP · Mammalian Biology · 2006

This influential study used feline immunodeficiency virus as a fast-evolving genetic marker to reconstruct the population history of its puma hosts in the American West. Because the virus mutates far…

R. Biek, A. J. Drummond, M. Poss · Science · 2006

This pioneering work identified virus-like particles associated with naturally occurring lymphosarcoma in cats, providing early evidence that a transmissible retrovirus underlies the disease now known…

Jarrett WFH, Crawford EM, Martin WB, Davie F · Nature · 1964

Ellis and co-authors produced consensus veterinary guidelines defining the environmental needs of domestic cats, organised around five pillars: a safe place; multiple and separated key resources; oppo…

Ellis SLH, Rodan I, Carney HC, Heath S, Rochlitz I, Shearburn LD, et al · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2013

Ellis and colleagues, on behalf of the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the International Society of Feline Medicine, produced consensus guidelines defining the environmental needs of…

Sarah L. H. Ellis, Ilona Rodan, Hazel C. Carney, et al. · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2013

Gilbert and colleagues reviewed the growing array of methods for estimating abundance and density of animals that cannot be individually identified from camera-trap images, a category that includes ma…

Neil A. Gilbert, John D. J. Clare, Jennifer L. Stenglein, Benjamin Zuckerberg · Conservation Biology · 2021

This study recorded meows from domestic cats across behavioural contexts and analysed their acoustic structure, also testing whether human listeners could assign calls to context. Meows were acoustica…

Nicholas Nicastro, Michael Owren · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2003

By fitting GPS collars to leopards living among farms and villages in western Maharashtra, this study quantified how big cats navigate a landscape saturated with people. Collared leopards were strongl…

Odden M, Athreya V, Rattan S, Linnell JDC · PLoS ONE · 2014

This influential analysis of long-term Serengeti and Ngorongoro data examined how female lions respond to the takeover of their pride by new males, an event that typically triggers infanticide of depe…

Packer C, Pusey AE · The American Naturalist · 1983

This high-profile study coupled climate, prey, and disease dynamics with metapopulation modeling to project the fate of the critically endangered Iberian lynx. It found that standard reintroduction pl…

Fordham, D.A., Akcakaya, H.R., Araujo, M.B., Keith, D.A., Brook, B.W. · Nature Climate Change · 2013

Using GPS telemetry and field observation, Elbroch and colleagues documented that pumas, long considered strictly solitary, engage in structured social interactions, including tolerated food sharing a…

L. Mark Elbroch, Michael Levy, Mark Lubell, Howard Quigley, Anthony Caragiulo · Science Advances · 2017

Bailey, MacKenzie, and Nichols reviewed the rapid development of occupancy modeling in the decade after its introduction, cataloguing extensions such as multi-season dynamics, multi-species and commun…

Larissa L. Bailey, Darryl I. MacKenzie, James D. Nichols · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2014

This study examined the temperature-sensitive coloration of pointed cats, such as the Siamese and Burmese, and the rare full albino, mapping these phenotypes to variants in the tyrosinase gene that co…

Deborah L. Imes, Leslie A. Lyons, et al. · Animal Genetics · 2006

This pioneering study in the Idaho Primitive Area provided the first rigorous picture of mountain lion predation on wild ungulates, based on years of tracking pumas in snow and examining kills. It doc…

Hornocker, M. G. · Wildlife Monographs · 1970

Hornocker combined winter snow-tracking with radio-telemetry to quantify how cougars hunt mule deer and elk in central Idaho. By relocating collared lions and back-tracking to their kills, he estimate…

Maurice G. Hornocker · Wildlife Monographs · 1970

Hornocker's pioneering radio-telemetry study of cougars in central Idaho was among the first to quantify how a solitary felid affects its ungulate prey. By tracking marked lions through winters and re…

Hornocker, M.G. · Wildlife Monographs · 1970

Faure and Kitchener synthesized archaeological, iconographic and historical evidence to trace how people and small cats came together across the ancient world. They argued that domestication was a gra…

Eva-Maria Geigl Faure, Andrew C. Kitchener · Anthrozoos · 2009

Kays and colleagues used large multi-site camera-trap datasets to empirically assess how the number of cameras, deployment duration, and timing affect the precision and reliability of estimates for sp…

Roland Kays, Brian S. Arbogast, Megan Baker-Whatton, Chris Beirne, Hailey M. Boone, et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2020

Tobler and colleagues assessed how effectively camera traps inventory the terrestrial mammal community of a Peruvian rainforest, quantifying sampling effort needed to detect species and how detection…

Mathias W. Tobler, Samia E. Carrillo-Percastegui, Renata Leite Pitman, Rosa Mares, George Powell · Animal Conservation · 2008

Velez and colleagues compared the major software platforms and tools that apply artificial intelligence to camera-trap images, including options such as Wildlife Insights, MegaDetector-based pipelines…

Juliana Velez, William McShea, Hila Shamon, Paula J. Castiblanco-Camacho, Michael A. Tabak, et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2023

This study applied multilocus DNA fingerprinting to wild Serengeti and Ngorongoro lions to resolve parentage and quantify relatedness within prides and male coalitions. By matching cubs to candidate s…

Gilbert DA, Packer C, Pusey AE, Stephens JC, O'Brien SJ · Journal of Heredity · 1991

Horne and colleagues introduced the Brownian bridge movement model to home-range and movement analysis, explicitly incorporating the time order of locations and the uncertainty of an animal's path bet…

Jon S. Horne, Edward O. Garton, Stephen M. Krone, Jesse S. Lewis · Ecology · 2007

This introductory review framed a special issue on GPS telemetry, arguing that cheap, dense location data had created both unprecedented opportunity and serious analytical risk for movement ecology. T…

Francesca Cagnacci, Luigi Boitani, Roger A. Powell, Mark S. Boyce · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · 2010

Mellen and Ellis authored a foundational book chapter explaining how learning theory underpins husbandry training in zoos. They described how operant conditioning with positive reinforcement can train…

Mellen JD, Ellis S · Wild Mammals in Captivity (University of Chicago Press) · 1996

Broom's influential paper defined animal welfare as an animal's state regarding its attempts to cope with its environment, a definition that is scientific and measurable rather than purely emotive. He…

Broom DM · Journal of Animal Science · 1991

This study linked an epizootic of severe notoedric mange in urban bobcats and mountain lions to exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides. By combining disease surveillance, necropsy and toxicology in ra…

S. P. D. Riley, C. Bromley, R. H. Poppenga, et al. · Journal of Wildlife Management · 2007