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Mid-sized felids threatened by habitat degradation in Southeast Asia

, 2023
Deforestation and poaching in Southeast Asia have driven a stark decline in the region's apex predators, including large felids like tigers and leopards. Meanwhile, some small felids thrive in the region's human-modified landscapes.
Henri Decœur, Decœur, Henri, Moore, Jonathan H., Jonathan H. Moore, Matthew Scott Luskin, Mendes, Calebe P., Luskin, Matthew Scott, Zachary Amir, Calebe P. Mendes, Amir, Zachary   +9 more
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Size Matters: Zoo Data Analysis Shows that the White Blood Cell Ratio Differs between Large and Small Felids

Animals, 2020
The total number of white blood cells (WBCs) is related the immune system. In mammals, it is affected by the body mass, but it is unclear how the numbers of different WBC types correlate with this parameter.
Sergey V. Naidenko, Mikhail V. Alshinetskiy   +1 more
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Characteristics of Plant Eating in Domestic Cats

Animals, 2021
Plant eating by domestic cats is of interest to veterinarians and cat owners, especially with the current trend to keep cats totally indoors. Feline grass gardens are commonly provided to such cats as a reflection of cat owners believing in the need or ...
Benjamin L. Hart, Lynette A. Hart, Abigail P. Thigpen, Neil H. Willits   +3 more
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Collections of felids (Felidae) in natural history museums of Ukraine and their importance in knowledge dissemination on nature

Geo&Bio, 2022
The study is devoted to the analysis of collections of the felid family, which are housed in natural history museums of Ukraine under different jurisdictions (two academic and eight university).
Igor Zagorodniuk, Sergiy Kharchuk, Eugenia Ulyura, Yuriy Iliukhin, Yuriy Oleinik, Arpad Kron, Ihor Shydlovskyy, Sofia Pytel-Huta, Andriy Bokotey, Oleksandr Ponomarenko, Lyubov Kharchuk   +10 more
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First Detection of Cytauxzoon spp. DNA in Questing Ixodes ricinus Ticks

Microorganisms
Feline cytauxzoonosis is an emerging tick-borne disease in Europe. While infections have been reported in different European countries, the tick vector remains unknown. This study investigated 665 ticks collected in 2019 (n = 160), 2022 (n = 7), and 2024
Marina L. Meli, Theres Meili, Benita Pineroli, Eva Boenzli, Ramon M. Eichenberger, Barbara Willi, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann   +6 more
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Effects of reduced mobility on trabecular bone density in captive big cats

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
Bone responds to elevated mechanical loading by increasing in mass and density. Therefore, wild animals should exhibit greater skeletal mass and density than captive conspecifics.
Habiba Chirchir, Christopher Ruff, Kristofer M. Helgen, Richard Potts   +3 more
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FELIDS: Federated learning-based intrusion detection system for agricultural Internet of Things [PDF]

, 2022
In this paper, we propose a federated learning-based intrusion detection system, named FELIDS, for securing agricultural-IoT infrastructures. Specifically, the FELIDS system protects data privacy through local learning, where devices benefit from the ...
Shu, Lei, Maglaras, Leandros, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond, Ferrag, Mohamed Amine, Nafaa, Mehdi, Friha, Othmane   +5 more
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Deconstructed cat communities: Quantifying the threat to felids from prey defaunation [PDF]

, 2017
Aim Defaunation, the emptying of ecosystems of fauna, has been highlighted as a likely threat to the conservation of carnivores but the magnitude of this threat has yet to be quantified.
Burnham, D, Macdonald, David W., Sandom, Christopher J., A. J. Dickman, Macdonald, DW, Macdonald, Ewan A., Burnham, Dawn, Macdonald, EA, J. Williams, A. E. Hinks, Dickman, Amelia J.A., Christopher Sandom (4466128), D W Macdonald (13643638), C. J. Sandom, D. Burnham, J Williams (7634615), E A Macdonald (16243391), A E Hinks (16243388), Hinks, AE, Hinks, Amy E., E. A. Macdonald, A J Dickman (13383849), Williams, John, Sandom, CJ, Williams, J, Dickman, AJA, D Burnham (16243385), D. W. Macdonald   +27 more
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More people, more cats, more parasites: Human population density and temperature variation predict prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii oocyst shedding in free-ranging domestic and wild felids

PLoS ONE, 2023
Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous zoonotic parasite that can infect warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans. Felids, the definitive hosts, drive T. gondii infections by shedding the environmentally resistant stage of the parasite (oocysts) in their ...
Sophie Zhu, Elizabeth VanWormer, Karen Shapiro   +2 more
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Molecular Detection of Feline Coronavirus in Captive Non-Domestic Felids from Zoological Facilities [PDF]

, 2022
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Non-domestic felids are well-known threatened species, and are susceptible to several diseases that also affect domestic cats. Among viral infections, fatal outbreaks of feline infectious peritonitis, caused by a feline coronavirus, have ...
Maurizio Oltolina, Ratti, Gabriele, Lauzi, Stefania, Stranieri, Angelica, Morici, Manuel, Paltrinieri, Saverio, Alessia Giordano, Magnone, William, Eleonora Bonacina, Ravasio, Giuliano, Bonacina, Eleonora, Angelica Stranieri, Manuel Morici, Gabriele Ratti, Saverio Paltrinieri, Giordano, Alessia, Oltolina, Maurizio, Giuliano Ravasio, William Magnone, Stefania Lauzi   +19 more
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