🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

Stella, Croney and Buffington experimentally exposed cats to unpredictable husbandry and other stressors, measuring sickness behaviours such as reduced eating, elimination outside the litter box, vomi…

Stella JL, Croney CC, Buffington CAT · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 2013

This study examined how bobcats and coyotes responded to urban development and habitat fragmentation across the Santa Monica Mountains region near Los Angeles. Using radio-telemetry, the authors found…

Riley SPD, Sauvajot RM, Fuller TK, York EC, Kamradt DA, Bromley C, Wayne RK · Conservation Biology · 2003

This camera-trap study examined how a community of carnivores, including bobcats and pumas, was distributed across an urbanisation gradient in southern California, relating species occurrence and rich…

Ordenana MA, Crooks KR, Boydston EE, Fisher RN, et al · Journal of Mammalogy · 2010

This pivotal field trial treated cats with naturally occurring feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), long considered almost uniformly fatal, using the nucleoside analog GS-441524, a parent compound rel…

Pedersen NC, Perron M, Bannasch M, Montgomery E, Murakami E, Liepnieks M, Liu H · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2019

This study evaluated the antiviral protease inhibitor GC376 in cats with naturally acquired FIP, targeting the coronavirus 3C-like protease essential for viral replication. Treated cats showed clinica…

Pedersen NC, Kim Y, Liu H, Galasiti Kankanamalage AC, Eckstrand C, Groutas WC, Bannasch M, Meadows JM, Chang KO · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2018

Hazzah and colleagues evaluated whether a Maasai-warrior employment scheme (Lion Guardians) and a livestock compensation program reduced lion killing in southern Kenya. Using long-term lion-mortality…

Leela Hazzah, Stephanie Dolrenry, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2014

Beery, Morris, and Yang described the approach behind MegaDetector, a general-purpose object-detection model trained to locate animals, people, and vehicles in camera-trap images regardless of species…

Sara Beery, Dan Morris, Siyu Yang · arXiv preprint · 2019

This review synthesized progress in applying in vitro fertilization, embryo culture, embryo transfer, and cryopreservation to nondomestic cats, using the domestic cat as a research model. The author s…

Pope CE · Theriogenology · 2000

This influential review synthesized how emerging infectious diseases threaten wildlife, including charismatic carnivores, and intersect with human and domestic-animal health. The authors framed diseas…

P. Daszak, A. A. Cunningham, A. D. Hyatt · Science · 2000

This study identified the molecular cause of the dominant white and white-spotting coat patterns in domestic cats, mapping both to the KIT gene that governs the migration of pigment-cell precursors du…

Victor A. David, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, et al. · G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics · 2014

Szokalski, Litchfield and Foster reviewed the published evidence on enrichment specifically for captive tigers, organising it by enrichment type and outcome. They covered feeding, sensory, structural,…

Szokalski MS, Litchfield CA, Foster WK · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 2012

This paper argued that projections of species distributions under climate change carry large uncertainty arising from the choice of model, climate scenario, and other factors, and that ensemble foreca…

Araujo, M.B., New, M. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2007

Legge and colleagues tackled a foundational question for cat management by estimating the total feral cat population across Australia. They compiled density estimates from dozens of sites and modelled…

Sarah Legge, Brett P. Murphy, Hugh McGregor, et al. · Biological Conservation · 2017

Young's book provided a comprehensive, practical and scientific treatment of environmental enrichment, covering its theory, types, design, implementation and evaluation across captive species. It addr…

Young RJ · Blackwell Publishing (UFAW Animal Welfare Series) · 2003

Herron and Buffington reviewed the principles and practice of environmental enrichment for indoor-housed cats, translating research on feline behaviour and stress physiology into practical recommendat…

Meghan E. Herron, C. A. Tony Buffington · Compendium: Continuing Education for Veterinarians · 2010

De Azevedo, Cipreste and Young surveyed the published enrichment literature to identify which taxa, enrichment types and research questions were well studied and which were neglected. They found resea…

de Azevedo CS, Cipreste CF, Young RJ · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 2007

Newberry argued that effective enrichment is not about adding novelty for its own sake but about increasing the biological relevance of captive environments, that is, providing opportunities for anima…

Newberry RC · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 1995

Focusing on a well-studied cougar population, this study characterized the prevalence, genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of endemic feline immunodeficiency virus in wild pumas. By sampling i…

R. Biek, T. K. Ruth, K. M. Murphy, et al. · Journal of Virology · 2003

This study described a feline leukemia virus (FeLV) outbreak in the endangered Florida panther, a small, inbred puma population. Through surveillance testing, the authors detected progressive FeLV inf…

M. W. Cunningham, M. A. Brown, D. B. Shindle, et al. · Journal of Wildlife Diseases · 2008

Blancher estimated the annual mortality of birds caused by cats in Canada, applying methods similar to large-scale predation assessments elsewhere. By combining figures on the numbers of pet and feral…

Peter Blancher · Avian Conservation and Ecology · 2013

Royle and Nichols showed that variation in detection probability across sites carries information about local abundance, because sites with more individuals are more likely to yield a detection. Their…

J. Andrew Royle, James D. Nichols · Ecology · 2003

Rowcliffe and colleagues introduced the Random Encounter Model, a method to estimate density for species that cannot be individually identified, such as unmarked cats and many prey species. Borrowing…

J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Juliet Field, Samuel T. Turvey, Chris Carbone · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2008

Nakashima, Fukasawa, and Samejima proposed the Random Encounter and Staying Time (REST) model, which estimates density from the number of detections and the time animals remain within a defined detect…

Yoshihiro Nakashima, Keita Fukasawa, Hiroshi Samejima · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2018

Anderson and Lindzey pioneered the use of GPS location clusters to detect cougar kills, exploiting the fact that a lion lingers at a carcass to feed over one or more days, producing a tight cluster of…

Charles R. Anderson Jr., Frederick G. Lindzey · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 2003

Anderson and Lindzey developed and validated a method to estimate cougar kill rates by identifying spatial clusters of GPS locations and field-checking them for carcasses, then modeling which clusters…

Anderson, C.R. & Lindzey, F.G. · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 2003

Reppucci, Gardner, and Lucherini tackled one of the hardest felid monitoring problems: estimating density of the rare, cryptic Andean cat in the high Andes, where it coexists with the more common pamp…

Juan I. Reppucci, Beth Gardner, Mauro Lucherini · Journal of Mammalogy · 2011

Tobler and Powell used extensive simulations and empirical jaguar data to expose how common camera-trap study designs produce biased or imprecise density estimates. They showed that arrays too small r…

Mathias W. Tobler, George V. N. Powell · Biological Conservation · 2013

Soisalo and Cavalcanti combined camera-trap capture-recapture with GPS radio-telemetry to refine jaguar density estimates in the Brazilian Pantanal, using telemetry-derived movement data to better def…

Marianne K. Soisalo, Sandra M. C. Cavalcanti · Biological Conservation · 2006

Ridout and Linkie developed kernel-density methods to estimate and compare the daily activity patterns of animals using the timestamps recorded by camera traps, treating detection times as samples fro…

Martin S. Ridout, Matthew Linkie · Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics · 2009

Efford and Fewster clarified how spatially explicit capture-recapture can estimate the number of individuals within a defined region, bridging the gap between density (animals per unit area) and absol…

Murray G. Efford, Rachel M. Fewster · Oikos · 2013