🧬 The Felid Wiki — 3,000 research summaries

This landmark genetic study showed that a multi-lane freeway sharply restricted movement and gene flow in bobcats and coyotes in the fragmented hills north of Los Angeles. Combining radio-telemetry wi…

Riley SPD, Pollinger JP, Sauvajot RM, York EC, Bromley C, Fuller TK, Wayne RK · Molecular Ecology · 2006

Riley and colleagues combined radio-telemetry with genetic analysis of bobcats and coyotes split by a major Los Angeles freeway, showing that the road acted as both a physical and a social barrier to…

Seth P. D. Riley, John P. Pollinger, Raymond M. Sauvajot, Eric C. York, Cassity Bromley, Todd K. Fuller, Robert K. Wayne · Molecular Ecology · 2006

This study linked an epizootic of severe notoedric mange in urban bobcats and mountain lions to exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides. By combining disease surveillance, necropsy and toxicology in ra…

S. P. D. Riley, C. Bromley, R. H. Poppenga, et al. · Journal of Wildlife Management · 2007

This study established a striking association between exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and severe notoedric mange in bobcats and mountain lions across urban southern California. Necropsies and t…

Riley SPD, Bromley C, Poppenga RH, Uzal FA, Whited L, Sauvajot RM · Journal of Wildlife Management · 2007

This long-term study screened bobcats across the urbanizing landscape of southern California and found pervasive exposure to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, with the great majority of te…

Serieys LEK, Armenta TC, Moriarty JG, Boydston EE, Lyren LM, Poppenga RH, Crooks KR, Wayne RK, Riley SPD · Ecotoxicology · 2015

This study connected the felid-shed parasite Toxoplasma gondii to deaths of threatened southern sea otters along the California coast. Because cats are the only definitive hosts that shed environmenta…

M. A. Miller, I. A. Gardner, C. Kreuder, et al. · International Journal for Parasitology · 2002

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 study tested whether competition between Canada lynx and bobcat structures their distributions at a continental scale, with implications for how warming snowpack reshuffles the two species. Lynx…

Peers, M.J.L., Thornton, D.H., Murray, D.L. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2013

In this widely cited study from San Diego habitat fragments, the authors showed that where bobcats and coyotes disappeared from small, isolated canyons, populations of smaller predators such as domest…

Crooks KR, Soule ME · Nature · 1999

This study examined how a guild of mammalian carnivores responds to habitat fragmentation in southern California, finding that species differ markedly in their sensitivity to isolation and patch size,…

Crooks, K.R. · Conservation Biology · 2002

This study compared how a suite of carnivores, including bobcats, responded to the size and isolation of urban habitat fragments in coastal southern California. Bobcats and other area-sensitive specie…

Crooks KR · Conservation Biology · 2002

Cytauxzoon felis is a tick-transmitted protozoan that causes a frequently fatal disease in domestic cats, with bobcats serving as the natural reservoir host. This overview synthesizes the parasite’s l…

Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State bisects forested habitat in the Cascade Range, and an extensive program of wildlife overpasses and underpasses has been built to restore movement…

Serosurveys consistently reveal high Toxoplasma exposure in wild felids, reflecting their role as both definitive hosts and predators of infected prey. This overview synthesizes prevalence patterns ac…

A growing body of work links sublethal anticoagulant rodenticide exposure to severe mange in urban bobcats and mountain lions, implicating chemical immunosuppression as the hidden driver. This overvie…

Some Toxoplasma infections in southern sea otters involve unusual atypical genotypes, including a so-called Type X strain rarely seen in domestic cats. This overview surveys research suggesting that w…

This overview examines bobcat activity, which research generally describes as crepuscular with substantial nocturnal and some diurnal movement, flexibly tuned to prey activity, season, and human distu…

Bobcats and Canada lynx are widespread North American felids studied extensively with camera traps, though their relatively subtle coat patterns complicate reliable individual identification. This ove…

The bobcat is a versatile predator, and this overview synthesizes diet studies showing rabbits and hares as the dietary mainstay across much of the range, supplemented by rodents, birds, reptiles, and…

Bobcats remain largely carnivorous specialists on small mammals even in human-dominated landscapes, but their diet and foraging shift along the urban gradient. This overview synthesises scat and stabl…

A survey of the broad, adaptable diet of the bobcat, which lets this mid-sized felid thrive across diverse North American habitats. Bobcats specialize on lagomorphs such as cottontails and jackrabbits…

The bobcat is the most widespread wild cat in North America, ranging from southern Canada through the United States into Mexico across an extraordinary variety of habitats. This overview compiles reco…

Bobcats living in fragmented urban edges, such as those around Los Angeles, illustrate how roads and development structure carnivore populations even for adaptable mesopredators. This overview surveys…

The bobcat is harvested for fur across much of its range, and this overview reviews the science underpinning its management. Wildlife agencies use harvest records, age and reproductive data, and popul…

Bobcats are among the most adaptable felids at the urban edge, persisting in suburbs and exurban developments across North America by exploiting greenbelts, washes, golf courses and remnant natural pa…

This overview examines bobcat spatial ecology, drawn from extensive telemetry research. Bobcats maintain home ranges that vary widely with prey density, habitat, and sex, with males ranging more widel…

Research in human-influenced landscapes has revealed a troubling link between anticoagulant rodenticides and severe mange in bobcats, and this overview reviews it. Bobcats accumulate rodenticides by e…

Bobcats are the most widespread wild cat in North America and thrive in landscapes ranging from wilderness to suburban edges, and this overview synthesizes telemetry research on their movement through…

Bobcats are a generalist felid whose northern range limit appears constrained by deep snow and severe winters, conditions that warming is relaxing. This overview surveys evidence and projections for b…