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A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)
PaperThis landmark study documented the catastrophic 1994 canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreak that killed roughly a third of the Serengeti lion population, an estimated 1,000 lions, along with leopards,…
M. Roelke-Parker, L. Munson, C. Packer, et al. · Nature · 1996
A cat among the dogs: leopard diet in a human-dominated landscape in western Maharashtra
PaperAthreya and colleagues analysed leopard scats from a farmland landscape in western Maharashtra to quantify diet where leopards live amid dense human settlement. They found domestic animals, especially…
Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, K. Ullas Karanth · Oryx · 2016
Adaptable neighbours: GPS-collared leopard movement in human-dominated India
PaperBy fitting GPS collars to leopards living among farms and villages in western Maharashtra, this study quantified how big cats navigate a landscape saturated with people. Collared leopards were strongl…
Odden M, Athreya V, Rattan S, Linnell JDC · PLoS ONE · 2014
Behavioural correlates of predation by tiger, leopard and dhole
PaperA companion to their prey-selection study, Karanth and Sunquist examined how the hunting behavior, social organization and activity patterns of tigers, leopards and dholes in Nagarahole map onto their…
Karanth, K.U. & Sunquist, M.E. · Journal of Zoology · 2000
Behavioural correlates of predation by tiger, leopard, and dhole in Nagarahole
PaperThis study in Nagarahole, southern India, examined how three large predators, the tiger, leopard, and dhole, partition a shared prey community. By analyzing kills and prey availability, the authors sh…
Karanth, K. U., Sunquist, M. E. · Journal of Animal Ecology · 2000
Big cats in our backyard: persistence of large carnivores in a human-dominated landscape in India
PaperAthreya and colleagues camera-trapped a densely populated agricultural landscape in Maharashtra with no protected forest and found surprisingly high densities of leopards and striped hyenas living amo…
Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ullas Karanth · PLOS ONE · 2013
Big cats in our backyards: leopards persisting in a human-dominated Indian landscape
PaperThis influential study documented free-ranging leopards living at high density in the densely populated, intensively cultivated countryside of Maharashtra, India, far from any protected forest. Using…
Athreya V, Odden M, Linnell JDC, Krishnaswamy J, Karanth U · PLoS ONE · 2013
Camera traps for estimating tiger and leopard populations in the high mountains of Bhutan
PaperWang and Macdonald applied camera-trap capture-recapture to tigers and leopards in the high-altitude mountains of Bhutan, documenting the surprising presence of tigers at unusually high elevations and…
Sherub Wang, David W. Macdonald · Biological Conservation · 2009
Carrying capacity of large African predators: predictions and tests
PaperBuilding on the prey-preference series, Hayward, O'Brien and Kerley developed regression models that predict the density a reserve can support for each large African predator from the available biomas…
Hayward, M.W., O'Brien, J. & Kerley, G.I.H. · Biological Conservation · 2007
Comparison of Carnivore, Omnivore, and Herbivore Genomes with a New Leopard Assembly
PaperThis study generated a high-quality genome of the leopard and compared it across the dietary spectrum, contrasting strict carnivores like cats with omnivores and herbivores to identify the genomic bas…
Soonok Kim, Yun Sung Cho, Jong Bhak, et al. · Genome Biology · 2016
Diet and prey profiles of three sympatric large carnivores in Bandipur
PaperAndheria, 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
Genome-wide signatures of complex introgression and adaptive evolution in big cats
PaperThis genomic study sequenced multiple Panthera species and found pervasive evidence that gene flow between lineages, not just simple branching, shaped big cat evolution. The authors detected introgres…
Figueiro HV, Li G, Trindade FJ, et al. · Science Advances · 2017
How the Leopard Hides Its Spots: ASIP Mutations and Melanism in Wild Cats
PaperThis study extended earlier work on feline melanism by surveying agouti signaling protein and melanocortin-1 receptor variation across wild cat species, including the leopard. The authors characterize…
Alexsandra Schneider, Eduardo Eizirik, et al. · PLoS ONE · 2012
Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide
ReviewInskip and Zimmermann produced a comprehensive global review of conflict between people and wild cats, synthesising the geography, drivers, and severity of conflict across all felid species. They iden…
Chloe Inskip, Alexandra Zimmermann · Oryx · 2009
Interspecific killing among mammalian carnivores
ReviewPalomares and Caro compiled and analyzed the global record of carnivores killing other carnivores, establishing intraguild predation as a widespread structuring force. They showed that interspecific k…
Palomares, F. & Caro, T.M. · The American Naturalist · 1999
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
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
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
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 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