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Iriomote and Tsushima cats share the leopard cat mitochondrial lineage
PaperThis molecular study compared the mitochondrial DNA of Japan's two wild cats, the Iriomote cat and the Tsushima cat, with that of the mainland leopard cat and found that both belong to the same lineag…
Masuda R, Yoshida MC · Zoological Science · 1995
Large predators and their prey: a predator's size determines its prey size range
PaperRadloff and Du Toit analyzed the southern African large-carnivore guild to show that a predator's body mass sets both the average and the upper limit of the prey sizes it takes. Larger predators such…
Radloff, F.G.T. & Du Toit, J.T. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2004
Leopards provide public health benefits by preying on free-ranging dogs in Mumbai
PaperThis study quantified an unexpected ecosystem service delivered by leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park inside greater Mumbai. By modelling leopard diet, in which feral and stray dogs form…
Braczkowski AR, OBryan CJ, Stringer MJ, Watson JEM, Possingham HP, Beyer HL · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018
Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India
PaperBraczkowski and colleagues modelled the ecological and public-health role of leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park within Mumbai, where the cats prey heavily on free-ranging dogs in surround…
Alexander R. Braczkowski, et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018
Limiting depredation by African carnivores: the role of livestock husbandry
PaperOgada and colleagues conducted a controlled comparison of husbandry practices on Laikipia ranches in Kenya to identify which measures reduce predation by lions, leopards, hyenas, and cheetahs. By corr…
Maurice O. Ogada, Rosie Woodroffe, Nicholas O. Oguge, Laurence G. Frank · Conservation Biology · 2003
Livestock predation and vulnerability to retaliatory killing in the Maasai steppe
PaperKissui quantified livestock losses to lions, leopards, and spotted hyenas across Maasai households in northern Tanzania and linked those losses to retaliatory killing of carnivores. Using household su…
Bernard M. Kissui · Animal Conservation · 2008
Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard
PaperBagchi and Mishra quantified snow leopard predation on livestock in the Spiti region of the Indian trans-Himalaya, combining diet analysis with herder-reported losses to assess the predator's reliance…
Sumanta Bagchi, Charudutt Mishra · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard
PaperBagchi and Mishra studied snow leopard diet and livestock depredation in India's Spiti region, linking the cat's reliance on wild prey to its use of domestic stock. Through scat analysis they showed t…
Bagchi, S. & Mishra, C. · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
PaperThis paper introduced the MaxEnt method, a maximum-entropy approach for modeling species distributions from presence-only data, which became one of the most widely used tools in the field. Because muc…
Phillips, S.J., Anderson, R.P., Schapire, R.E. · Ecological Modelling · 2006
Molecular data reveal complex hybridization and a cryptic species of Neotropical cat
PaperThis study used genetic data to investigate the small spotted cats of South America and uncovered a cryptic species hidden within what was called the oncilla or tigrina. The authors found that northea…
Trigo TC, Schneider A, de Oliveira TG, et al. · Current Biology · 2013
Molecular evidence for species-level distinctions in clouded leopards
PaperThis study used multiple genetic markers to compare mainland and Sunda island clouded leopards and found divergence comparable to that between well-recognized cat species. The authors showed that clou…
Buckley-Beason VA, Johnson WE, Nash WG, et al. · Current Biology · 2006
Molecular evolution of mitochondrial sequences in the pantherine cats
PaperAn early molecular study of the big cats that used mitochondrial 12S rRNA and cytochrome b sequences to probe relationships within the Panthera group. This work was among the first to apply DNA sequen…
Janczewski DN, Modi WS, Stephens JC, O'Brien SJ · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1995
Movements and activities of snow leopards in Southwestern Mongolia
PaperMcCarthy, Fuller, and Munkhtsog reported one of the first detailed studies of snow leopard movement, using VHF telemetry to track cats in the mountains of southwestern Mongolia. Despite the constraint…
Thomas M. McCarthy, Todd K. Fuller, Bariushaa Munkhtsog · Biological Conservation · 2005
Noninvasive assessment of adrenal activity associated with husbandry and behavioral factors in clouded leopards
PaperWielebnowski and colleagues studied the notoriously difficult-to-breed North American clouded leopard population, using faecal corticoid monitoring across many individuals. They linked elevated adrena…
Wielebnowski NC, Fletchall N, Carlstead K, Busso JM, Brown JL · Zoo Biology · 2002
Noninvasive assessment of adrenal activity associated with husbandry and behavioral factors in the captive clouded leopard
PaperThis study used fecal glucocorticoid monitoring to investigate why captive clouded leopards often breed poorly and show high rates of mate aggression. The authors related adrenal hormone output to hou…
Wielebnowski NC, Fletchall N, Carlstead K, Busso JM, Brown JL · Zoo Biology · 2002
Original description of the Iriomote cat as a new genus and species
PaperWhen the Iriomote cat was discovered on the small Japanese island of Iriomote, it was originally described as a strikingly distinct felid, placed in its own genus and species and treated as a living r…
Imaizumi Y · 1967
Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system
PaperSinclair, Mduma and Brashares tested why some Serengeti ungulate species are regulated by predation while others are limited by food, using long-term data across the migratory and resident herbivore c…
Sinclair, A.R.E., Mduma, S. & Brashares, J.S. · Nature · 2003
People, predators and perceptions: patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves
PaperSuryawanshi and colleagues quantified livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves across the Indian trans-Himalaya and compared actual losses with herders' perceptions of those losses. They foun…
Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi, et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2013
Personality structure across wild and domestic felid species
PaperThis comparative study applied trait ratings to multiple felid species, including domestic cats, African lions, snow leopards, clouded leopards, and Scottish wildcats, to ask whether personality dimen…
Marieke Gartner, David Powell, Alexander Weiss · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2014
Personality structure in the domestic cat, African lion, snow leopard, and clouded leopard
PaperGartner, Powell and Weiss applied systematic personality assessment to four felid species, having keepers rate individuals on behavioural traits and then analysing the underlying structure. They ident…
Gartner MC, Powell DM, Weiss A · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2014
Phylogenetics, genome diversity, and origin of the modern leopard
PaperThis study provided the first range-wide molecular assessment of the leopard, using mitochondrial and microsatellite data to evaluate the many subspecies that had been named on morphology. The authors…
Uphyrkina O, Johnson WE, Quigley H, et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2001
Phylogeny of the great cats with fossil taxa and missing characters
PaperThis morphological study reconstructed relationships among the pantherine cats while explicitly incorporating fossil taxa and testing how missing data affect tree inference. Working from cranial and s…
Christiansen P · Cladistics · 2008
Predator-prey size relationships in an African large-mammal food web
PaperOwen-Smith and Mills assembled a detailed predation web for Kruger National Park, quantifying which predators kill which prey and in what proportions across the size spectrum. They mapped how lion, le…
Owen-Smith, N. & Mills, M.G.L. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2008
Prevalence and determinants of stereotypic behaviours and physiological stress among tigers and leopards in Indian zoos
PaperVaz, Narayan and colleagues surveyed tigers and leopards across multiple Indian zoos, combining behavioural observation of pacing with non-invasive faecal cortisol measurement. They found substantial…
Vaz J, Narayan EJ, Dileep Kumar R, Thenmozhi K, Thiyagesan K, Baskaran N · PLoS ONE · 2017
Prey preferences and dietary overlap amongst Africa's large predators
ReviewThis synthesis pulled together the individual prey-preference analyses for lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyena and wild dog to quantify dietary overlap across the African large-carnivore guild. By c…
Hayward, M.W. & Kerley, G.I.H. · South African Journal of Wildlife Research · 2008
Prey preferences of the leopard (Panthera pardus)
PaperThis contribution to the Hayward prey-preference series quantified leopard diet selectivity across Africa and Asia using kill records weighted by prey abundance. Leopards showed a preferred prey weigh…
Hayward, M.W., Henschel, P., O'Brien, J., Hofmeyr, M., Balme, G. & Kerley, G.I.H. · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Prey preferences of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
PaperApplying the prey-preference framework to high-mountain Asia, Lyngdoh and colleagues compiled snow leopard diet records across the species' range and weighted them by prey availability. They found sno…
Lyngdoh, S. et al. · PLOS ONE · 2014
Prey preferences of the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta)
PaperThough not a felid, the spotted hyena is the dominant competitor and kleptoparasite of African big cats, so its prey preferences are central to felid dynamics. Hayward compiled kill and diet records a…
Hayward, M.W. · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Prey selection by tiger, leopard and dhole in tropical forests
PaperA landmark study of intraguild prey partitioning in India's Nagarahole reserve, combining prey censuses with predator kill records to test how three sympatric large carnivores divide a shared ungulate…
Karanth, K.U. & Sunquist, M.E. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1995
Program SPACECAP: software for estimating animal density using spatially explicit capture-recapture
PaperGopalaswamy and colleagues released SPACECAP, free software implementing Bayesian spatially explicit capture-recapture specifically to make modern density estimation accessible to camera-trap practiti…
Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, J. Andrew Royle, James E. Hines, Pallavi Singh, Devcharan Jathanna, et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2012