The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids

... surely destined to be the key reference point on a subject which is currently featuring high on international agendas for conservation priorities ... This global coverage ... encompassing both the large and small felids, is especially refreshing, and results in an almost encyclopaedic coverage. It could serve as a model for reference works on other groups of organisms of conservation importance.

Autorentext
David Macdonald is Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. Andrew Loveridge is a career wildlife biologist and conservationist. He is a member of the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group and African Lion Working Group.

Klappentext
This advanced textbook brings together a unique network of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts to provide a review of the biology and conservation of wild felids, and detailed case-studies from species investigations worldwide.

Inhalt
Preface; PART I - REVIEWS; 1. Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild felids; 2. Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae); 3. Felid form and function; 4. Genetic applications in wild felids; 5. Felid society; 6. People and wild felids: conservation of cats and management of conflicts; 7. Many ways of skinning a cat: tools and techniques for studying wild felids; 8. Felids ex situ for managed programmes, research, and species recovery; 9. Wild felid diseases: conservation implications and management strategies; PART II - CASE STUDIES; 10. Ecology of infectious diseases in Serengeti lions; 11. African lions on the edge: reserve boundaries as 'attractive sinks'; 12. Tiger range collapse and recovery at the base of the Himalayas; 13. The Amur tiger: a case study of living on the edge; 14. An adaptive management approach to trophy hunting of leopards Panthera pardus: a case study from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; 15. Cheetahs and ranchers in Namibia: a case study; 16. Past, present and future of cheetahs in Tanzania: their behavioural ecology and conservation; 17. Jaguars, livestock and people in Brazil: realities and perceptions behind the conflict; 18. The ecology of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize; 19. Snow leopards, conflict, and conservation; 20. Pumas and people: lessons in the landscape of tolerance from a widely distributed felid; 21. Long term research on the Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi): historical findings and future obstacles to population persistence; 22. Reversing cryptic extinction: the history, present and future of the Scottish wildcat; 23. The changing impact of predation as a source of conflict between hunters and reintroduced lynx in Switzerland; 24. Iberian lynx: the uncertain future of a critically endangered cat; 25. Cyclical dynamics and behaviour of Canada lynx in northern Canada; 26. Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) and African wild cats (Felis silvestris): a comparison of two small felids from South African arid lands; 27. Ocelot ecology and its effect on the small-felid guild in the lowland Neotropics; 28. Highland cats: ecology and conservation of the rare and elusive Andean cat; PART III - CONCLUSIONS; 29. Felid Futures: crossing disciplines, borders, and generations; References; Index

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