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Density, habitat use and activity patterns of ocelots in the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, Argentina
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Di Bitetti, Paviolo, and De Angelo combined camera-trap capture-recapture with activity-pattern analysis to characterize ocelot ecology in the threatened Atlantic Forest. They estimated density from i…
Mario S. Di Bitetti, Agustin Paviolo, Carlos De Angelo · Journal of Zoology · 2006
Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore
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Logan and Sweanor's monograph reports a decade-long study of pumas in New Mexico's San Andres Mountains, one of the most thorough investigations of cougar population and predation ecology. It document…
Logan, K.A. & Sweanor, L.L. · Island Press · 2001
Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort
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MacKenzie and Royle tackled the design side of occupancy studies, asking how to allocate limited survey effort between visiting more sites and surveying each site more intensively to best estimate occ…
Darryl I. MacKenzie, J. Andrew Royle · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2005
Determining minimum habitat areas and corridors for cougars
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This early conservation-planning study modelled how much habitat and what corridor configuration cougars need to persist in fragmenting southern California landscapes. By analysing demography and move…
Beier P · Conservation Biology · 1993
Determining minimum habitat areas and habitat corridors for cougars
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Beier combined population modeling with movement and habitat data to estimate how much habitat a cougar population needs to persist and how corridors connecting habitat patches reduce extinction risk.…
Paul Beier · Conservation Biology · 1993
Diet and prey profiles of three sympatric large carnivores in Bandipur
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Andheria, Karanth and Kumar quantified the diets of tiger, leopard and dhole in southern India's Bandipur Tiger Reserve using scat analysis combined with prey-availability data. They documented how th…
Andheria, A.P., Karanth, K.U. & Kumar, N.S. · Journal of Zoology · 2007
Diet, morphology, and intraguild predation in Carnivora
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Donadio and Buskirk tested what predicts the intensity of interactions among carnivores, including both killing and avoidance. Analyzing a broad dataset, they found that intraguild predation and aggre…
Donadio, E. & Buskirk, S.W. · The American Naturalist · 2006
Differential use of trails by forest mammals and implications for camera-trap studies in Belize
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Harmsen and colleagues documented how different mammal species use trails versus off-trail forest to varying degrees, and showed that this differential trail use biases camera-trap data when stations…
Bart J. Harmsen, Rebecca J. Foster, Scott C. Silver, Linde E. T. Ostro, C. Patrick Doncaster · Biotropica · 2010
Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech
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De Mouzon and colleagues investigated whether cats respond differently to the special register people use when talking to them, analogous to infant-directed speech. Cats were played recordings of thei…
Charlotte de Mouzon, Marine Gonthier, Gerard Leboucher · Animal Cognition · 2023
Dispersal of juvenile cougars in fragmented habitat
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Beier radio-tracked juvenile cougars dispersing through the fragmented Santa Ana Mountains of southern California, documenting how young animals leave their natal areas and search for territory amid e…
Paul Beier · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 1995
Dispersal of juvenile cougars in fragmented habitat
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This radio-telemetry study tracked young cougars dispersing through the developing landscape of southern California, documenting the routes they used, the barriers they faced and the mortality they su…
Beier P · Journal of Wildlife Management · 1995
Distance sampling with camera traps
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Howe and colleagues adapted distance-sampling theory to camera traps, providing a way to estimate density of unmarked animals from the distances at which they are detected in front of the camera. By m…
Eric J. Howe, Stephen T. Buckland, Marie-Lyne Despres-Einspenner, Hjalmar S. Kuhl · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2017
Distinct predatory behaviors in scimitar- and dirk-toothed sabertooth cats
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This study used three-dimensional analysis of skull and jaw shape to test whether scimitar-toothed and dirk-toothed sabercats differed in how they killed prey. By quantifying cranial geometry across m…
Borja Figueirido, Stephan Lautenschlager, Alejandro Perez-Ramos, Blaire Van Valkenburgh · Current Biology · 2018
Distinguishing technology from biology: a critical review of the use of GPS telemetry data in ecology
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Hebblewhite and Haydon offered a candid appraisal of whether the flood of GPS telemetry data had actually advanced ecological understanding or merely generated description. They reviewed how technolog…
Mark Hebblewhite, Daniel T. Haydon · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · 2010
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input
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Herbst and colleagues challenged the long-held assumption that purring requires continuous, cyclical neural commands to the laryngeal muscles. Working with excised cat larynges, they showed that simpl…
Christian T. Herbst, Tamara Prigge, Maxime Garcia, et al. · Current Biology · 2023
Domestic cats discriminate their names from other words
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Saito and colleagues tested whether cats can tell their own name from similar-sounding words. Using habituation-dishabituation, cats heard a series of four nouns matched in length and accent to their…
Atsuko Saito, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Yuki Ito, Toshikazu Hasegawa · Scientific Reports · 2019
Domestic cats distinguish their own names from similar words
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Across several experiments in homes and a cat cafe, cats were played sequences of four nouns matched in length and accent followed by their own name. Many cats habituated to the nouns but showed renew…
Atsuko Saito, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Yuki Ito, Toshikazu Hasegawa · Scientific Reports · 2019
Domestic cats do not show signs of secure attachment to their owners
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Potter and Mills applied a modified Ainsworth Strange Situation Test to pet cats to test whether they treat owners as an attachment figure providing security. Measuring behaviours during separations a…
Alice Potter, Daniel S. Mills · PLoS ONE · 2015
Earliest evidence for commensal cat processes at Quanhucun, China
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At the 5,300-year-old farming village of Quanhucun in central China, Hu and colleagues combined zooarchaeology with stable isotope analysis of cat, rodent, human and dog bones to reconstruct an early…
Yaowu Hu, Songmei Hu, Weilin Wang, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014
Early weaning increases aggression and stereotypic behaviour in cats
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Ahola, Vapalahti and Lohi analyzed a large survey of pet cats to test whether the age at weaning influences adult behaviour. They found that cats weaned early, before the natural age, showed higher ra…
Milla K. Ahola, Katariina Vapalahti, Hannes Lohi · Scientific Reports · 2017
Ecological impact of inside and outside house cats around a suburban preserve
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This study quantified prey returned by house cats living beside a suburban nature preserve, distinguishing cats kept partly indoors from those roaming freely, and estimated the predation they imposed…
Kays RW, DeWan AA · Animal Conservation · 2004
Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments
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Terborgh and colleagues exploited a natural experiment created by a Venezuelan hydroelectric reservoir that isolated land-bridge islands lacking large predators such as jaguars and pumas. On predator-…
Terborgh, J., Lopez, L., Nunez, P. et al. · Science · 2001
Ecology and behaviour of the jaguar in Belize
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This pioneering radio-telemetry study followed jaguars in the forests of Belize, providing one of the first quantitative pictures of the species' spatial ecology in Central America. The work documente…
Rabinowitz, A. R., Nottingham, B. G. · Journal of Zoology · 1986
Effect of a long-term trap-neuter-return and adoption program on a free-roaming cat population
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Levy, Gale and Gale conducted one of the most-cited long-term evaluations of trap-neuter-return, following a managed free-roaming cat population on a university campus over more than a decade. Cats we…
Julie K. Levy, David W. Gale, Leslie A. Gale · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association · 2003
Effect of felid activity on zoo visitor interest
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Margulis, Hoyos and Anderson examined the relationship between how active captive cats are and how long visitors watch them. Observing several felid species, they found that visitor interest, measured…
Margulis SW, Hoyos C, Anderson M · Zoo Biology · 2003
Effect of gentle stroking and vocalization on behaviour, mucosal immunity and upper respiratory disease in shelter cats
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Gourkow, Hamon and Phillips tested whether positive human interaction improves the health of anxious shelter cats. Cats receiving structured gentle stroking and soft talking from handlers showed more…
Gourkow N, Hamon SC, Phillips CJC · Preventive Veterinary Medicine · 2014
Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity
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This influential study assessed whether tropical protected areas actually work by surveying parks across many countries and comparing conditions inside their boundaries with the surrounding landscape.…
Bruner AG, Gullison RE, Rice RE, da Fonseca GAB · Science · 2001
Effectiveness of a LED flashlight technique in reducing livestock depredation by lions
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Lesilau and colleagues conducted a field experiment around Nairobi National Park, Kenya, testing whether installing flashing LED lights on bomas reduced lion attacks on livestock. Comparing depredatio…
Francis Lesilau, et al. · PLOS ONE · 2018
Effects of captivity on the behavior of wild mammals
Review
In this widely cited book chapter, Carlstead reviewed how captivity alters the behaviour of wild mammals, examining feeding, social, reproductive and anti-predator behaviours and the development of ab…
Carlstead K · Wild Mammals in Captivity (University of Chicago Press) · 1996
Effects of density and cage size on stress in domestic cats in shelters and catteries
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Kessler and Turner investigated how stocking density and cage size affect stress in shelter and cattery cats, again using the Cat-Stress-Score. They found that very high densities raised stress, but t…
Kessler MR, Turner DC · Animal Welfare · 1999

Density, habitat use and activity patterns of ocelots in the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, Argentina

Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore

Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort

Determining minimum habitat areas and corridors for cougars

Determining minimum habitat areas and habitat corridors for cougars

Diet and prey profiles of three sympatric large carnivores in Bandipur

Diet, morphology, and intraguild predation in Carnivora

Differential use of trails by forest mammals and implications for camera-trap studies in Belize

Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech

Dispersal of juvenile cougars in fragmented habitat

Dispersal of juvenile cougars in fragmented habitat

Distance sampling with camera traps

Distinct predatory behaviors in scimitar- and dirk-toothed sabertooth cats

Distinguishing technology from biology: a critical review of the use of GPS telemetry data in ecology

Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input

Domestic cats discriminate their names from other words

Domestic cats distinguish their own names from similar words

Domestic cats do not show signs of secure attachment to their owners

Earliest evidence for commensal cat processes at Quanhucun, China

Early weaning increases aggression and stereotypic behaviour in cats

Ecological impact of inside and outside house cats around a suburban preserve

Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments

Ecology and behaviour of the jaguar in Belize

Effect of a long-term trap-neuter-return and adoption program on a free-roaming cat population

Effect of felid activity on zoo visitor interest

Effect of gentle stroking and vocalization on behaviour, mucosal immunity and upper respiratory disease in shelter cats

Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity

Effectiveness of a LED flashlight technique in reducing livestock depredation by lions

Effects of captivity on the behavior of wild mammals

Effects of density and cage size on stress in domestic cats in shelters and catteries