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An Evaluation of Systematic Versus Strategically-Placed Camera Traps for Monitoring Feral Cats in New Zealand

Animals, 2019
We deploy camera traps to monitor feral cat (Felis catus) populations at two pastoral sites in Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand. At Site 1, cameras are deployed at pre-determined GPS points on a 500-m grid, and at Site 2, cameras are ...
Margaret Nichols, James Ross, Alistair S. Glen, Adrian M. Paterson   +3 more
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Water Use Behavior of Individual Birds: Ring Ouzels in an Arid High‐Mountain Ecosystem

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Water is a limiting resource for birds in arid ecosystems. Individual birds differ strongly in how they use shared water sources, with drinking behavior increasing with temperature. Behavioral differences, hierarchy, and social context ultimately shape unequal access to water within the population. ABSTRACT Water availability strongly constrains animal
Tamara Burgos, Juan P. González‐Varo, Juan Carlos Illera, Manuel Nogales, Beatriz Rumeu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feral cat management [PDF]

, 2013
We applaud McCarthy et al for their research addressing a critical issue in feral cat management. We concur that feral and free-roaming cats pose myriad problems for people and the environment.
Hutchins, Michael, Sizemore, Grant, Conant, Sheila, Marra, Peter P., Wallace, George, Sprague, Rachel, van Heezik, Yolanda, Loyd, Kerrie Anne, Bird, David M., Pitt, William C., Calver, Michael, Lepcyzk, Christopher A., Lohr, Cheryl A., Duffy, David, Temple, Stanley A., Duval, Fern P.   +15 more
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How Effective and Humane is Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for Feral Cats?

EDIS, 2020
As the number of feral cats continues to increase, land managers, public health officials, and private citizens are voicing concerns about how to address the nuisance and public health impacts, as well as animal welfare concerns, that feral cats create.
Mark Hostetler, Samantha M Wisely, Steve Johnson, Elizabeth Pienaar, Martin Main   +4 more
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Failure to detect in a cross-sectional survey in the populations of feral cats and owned outpatient cats on St Kitts, West Indies

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2018
Objectives For over two decades, feline trichomonosis caused by Tritrichomonas foetus has been recognized as a large-bowel protozoan disease of the domestic cat. It has a wide distribution, but no reports exist in the Caribbean.
Chaoqun Yao, Liza Köster, Brandon Halper, James Dundas, Rajeev Nair   +4 more
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Parasites at the Summit: Unexpected Geographic Distribution of the Blood Parasite Lineage Found in the Endangered Giant Lizard of Tenerife

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We combined microscopic screening and molecular phylogenetic analyses to characterize blood parasites infecting Gallotia intermedia from the coastal cliffs of Montaña de Guaza and to place these infections in a broader biogeographic context. We detected apicomplexan parasites of the genus Karyolysus infecting 53.6% of G.
Rodrigo Megía‐Palma, Gonzalo Albaladejo‐Robles, Gemma Palomar, Javier Martínez, Anamarija Žagar, Alejandro Escánez‐Pérez, Miguel A. Carretero, Wiesław Babik, Santiago Merino   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cape Town's cats: reassessing predation through kitty-cams [PDF]

, 2014
Includes bibliographical references.Domestic cats (Felis catus) are abundant generalist predators that exploit a wide range of prey within and adjacent to the urban matrix.
Morling, Frances
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Detection of Felis catus Gammaherpesvirus 1 in Domestic Cat Saliva: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Attempted Virus Isolation

Pathogens
Felis catus gammaherpesvirus 1 (FcaGHV1) infects domestic cats worldwide, yet it has not been successfully propagated in cell culture, and little is known about how it is shed and transmitted.
Malcolm A. M. Hill, Tracy Satchell, Ryan M. Troyer   +2 more
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A Survey of Public Opinion on Cat (Felis catus) Predation and the Future Direction of Cat Management in New Zealand

Animals, 2017
Cat predation is a prominent issue in New Zealand that provokes strong and opposing views. We explored, via 1011 face-to-face questionnaires, public opinion on (a) support for a National Cat Management Strategy (78% support); (b) concern regarding ...
Jessica K. Walker, Stephanie J. Bruce, Arnja R. Dale   +2 more
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
wiley   +1 more source