🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

The rusty-spotted cat, one of the smallest of all cats, is found in India and Sri Lanka and belongs to the leopard cat lineage. This overview reviews its placement within the genus Prionailurus, where…

The draining, filling and pollution of wetlands for urban development is the foremost threat to fishing cats across their range, nowhere more starkly than in rapidly growing South Asian cities. This o…

Unlike most cats, tigers readily enter water and swim, and providing pools is considered an important welfare and enrichment feature for the species. This overview surveys evidence and practice around…

Water sources and riparian corridors are disproportionately important to felids in human-dominated landscapes, providing drinking water, prey, cover and movement routes through otherwise hostile devel…

Small wild cats, servals, ocelots, fishing cats, sand cats, margays and others, are widely held yet receive less welfare research attention than big cats. This overview surveys their husbandry needs:…

Fishing cats are tightly bound to wetlands, with partially webbed feet and fish-catching behaviour that make them among the most habitat-specialised felids and therefore acutely vulnerable to wetland…

This overview synthesizes evidence that wetland destruction and degradation are the overriding threats to the fishing cat. Drainage for agriculture and settlement, conversion to aquaculture, pollution…

Wildlife crossings, from large vegetated overpasses to underpasses and culverts, are a primary engineering response to the roads that fragment felid populations near cities. This overview synthesises…

This synthesis reviews the conservation standing of the fishing cat, widely regarded as threatened owing to its dependence on fast-disappearing wetlands. It weighs the dominant pressure of wetland los…