🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

Dynamic Brownian bridge movement models extend the basic Brownian bridge by letting the animal's movement variance change along the track, so that fast directed travel and slow localized activity are…

eMammal is a citizen-science platform and data pipeline in which trained volunteers run camera traps and submit images that experts verify before archiving in a standardized, permanent repository suit…

Cats convey much of their emotional state through body posture, ear position and tail movements, and this overview surveys how these visual signals are described and interpreted. It covers the spectru…

A cat's ears reveal where its attention lies, swiveling toward sounds of interest even when the head and eyes are still. This overview surveys how ear orientation serves as a readout of auditory atten…

Beyond their auditory role, the highly mobile feline ears are an important channel of visual communication. This overview surveys how ear position signals emotional state, with upright forward ears in…

Small cats present a hardware problem: their necks may be too slender or their lives too cryptic for conventional collars, so researchers explore alternatives. This overview considers ear-mounted tags…

Before genomic sequencing, researchers used protein and allozyme variation to compare lion populations and found that the isolated Asiatic lions of Gir harbored strikingly little biochemical genetic v…

How much and how kittens are handled early in life affects their friendliness toward people, and this overview surveys the experimental evidence. It examines studies manipulating the amount of human h…

Touch is one of the earliest functional senses in kittens, and the whisker system is important from the beginning of life. This overview surveys early tactile and whisker development in kittens, which…

This overview reviews technological and community early-warning systems designed to alert people to the presence of big cats before conflict occurs. It synthesises approaches including GPS- and geofen…

Tigers occupy an extraordinary range of environments, from tropical mangroves and rainforests to temperate snow forests, and their ecology varies accordingly. This overview synthesizes how body size,…

The last wild Asiatic lions persist in and around the Gir forest of Gujarat, India, where their ecology differs notably from African populations. This overview reviews how Gir lions live in smaller gr…

Conserving big cats in a human-dominated world depends on applying their ecology to the challenge of coexistence. This overview synthesizes how understanding prey requirements, ranging, dispersal, and…

A survey of how the kills of large cats function as a form of ecosystem engineering, structuring scavenger communities, nutrient flow and local biodiversity. Because predators such as pumas, leopards…

Many lion populations now persist in protected areas surrounded by human land use, and the reserve edge is a zone of elevated risk. This overview synthesizes studies showing how lions that range near…

A persistent problem in camera-trap density estimation is that animals near the edge of a camera array spend only part of their range within it, so naive abundance divided by the array area overestima…

Habitat edges created by urban development alter microclimate, vegetation, prey, disturbance and predator interactions, shaping how felids use the boundary between natural and built land. This overvie…

Effective population size, the number of individuals genetically contributing to the next generation, is often far smaller than the census count and is a key predictor of how quickly a population lose…

Fitting cats with a bell is a common, low-cost attempt to warn prey and reduce hunting success, and this overview surveys the evidence for its effectiveness. It examines studies comparing prey capture…

FeLV vaccines are non-core products recommended for cats at risk of exposure, especially kittens and outdoor cats, and their introduction contributed to declining FeLV prevalence. Studies have examine…

FIP classically presents in two overlapping forms. The effusive (wet) form features protein-rich fluid accumulation in the abdomen or chest from vasculitis and leaky vessels, while the non-effusive (d…

Elastic tendons can store and return energy like springs, reducing the muscular cost of each stride. This overview reviews evidence for and against substantial elastic energy storage in the cheetah hi…

Collecting semen from nondomestic cats usually requires electroejaculation under anesthesia, a standardized technique that allows evaluation and banking of sperm. This overview surveys how electroejac…

Electroretinography and single-cell recording have been used to probe how the cat retina responds to different wavelengths, providing physiological evidence about color processing. This overview surve…

With lowland forest largely converted, Sumatran tigers increasingly persist in hill and montane forest, raising questions about how warming will reshape these upland habitats. This overview surveys ho…

Detecting climate-driven range shifts in snow leopards requires repeated, standardized occupancy surveys across elevation gradients. This overview surveys how camera-trap arrays and occupancy modeling…

In the mountains of Asia, common leopards, snow leopards, and tigers can occur along elevational gradients, partitioning the landscape by altitude and habitat. This overview synthesizes research on ho…

Elimination behaviour, including digging, covering, and substrate choice, has both innate and learned components and is a frequent source of household problems when disrupted. This overview surveys re…

Freezing embryos preserves them for future transfer, allowing the genetics of valuable matings to be stored and used across time and space. This overview surveys methods for cryopreserving felid embry…

The African wildcat, closely related to the domestic cat, has been a key species for demonstrating embryo transfer and related technologies in a wild felid. This overview surveys work in which African…