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Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of small predators, such as feral cats.
Hugh Mcgregor, Sarah Legge, Menna E Jones   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

A Review of Feral Cat Eradication on Islands [PDF]

Conservation Biology, 2004
Abstract:  Feral cats are directly responsible for a large percentage of global extinctions, particularly on islands. We reviewed feral cat eradication programs with the intent of providing information for future island conservation actions.
Manuel Nogales
exaly   +3 more sources

Modelling transmission and control of Toxoplasma gondii in New Zealand farmland [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Toxoplasma gondii is one of the world’s most prevalent parasites and has significant impacts on the health of humans, domestic animals and wildlife. In New Zealand’s rural environments, T.
Rachelle N. Binny, Graham J. Hickling, Alex James, Chris N. Niebuhr   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Application of genetic and Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture analyses to design adaptive feral cat control in a large inhabited island [PDF]

NeoBiota, 2022
Faunas of oceanic islands have a high proportion of endemic species which contribute to the uniqueness of island communities. Island species are particularly naïve and vulnerable to alien predators, such as cats (Felis catus). On large, inhabited islands,
Claire-Cécile Juhasz, Naïs Avargues, Laurence Humeau, David Ringler, Patrick Pinet, Clémence Hollinger, Richard Beaulieu, Lucie Faulquier, Arthur Choeur, Sophie Bureau, Denis Da Silva, Jérôme Dubos, Yahaia Soulaimana-Mattoir, Matthieu Le Corre   +13 more
doaj   +3 more sources

A bite wound from a stray or feral cat: Case report [PDF]

Halo 194, 2022
Introduction/Objective Cat bites can seriously harm human health, especially if the bite comes from a stray or feral cat who is not under veterinary supervision. Cat bites are the second most common mammal bites, second only to dog bites, and responsible
Katica Muhamed, Obradović Zarema, Abdalaziz Mohamed Rowida Seifeldin, Bajrić Amela, Lučkin Amina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two Methods of Monitoring Cats at a Landscape-Scale

Animals, 2021
Feral cats are difficult to manage and harder to monitor. We analysed the cost and the efficacy of monitoring the pre- and post-bait abundance of feral cats via camera-traps or track counts using four years of data from the Matuwa Indigenous Protected ...
Cheryl A. Lohr, Kristen Nilsson, Ashleigh Johnson, Neil Hamilton, Mike Onus, Dave Algar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does aerial baiting for controlling feral cats in a heterogeneous landscape confer benefits to a threatened native meso-predator?

PLoS ONE, 2021
Introduced mammalian predators can have devastating impacts on recipient ecosystems and disrupt native predator-prey relationships. Feral cats (Felis catus) have been implicated in the decline and extinction of many Australian native species and ...
Russell Palmer, Hannah Anderson, Brooke Richards, Michael D Craig, Lesley Gibson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laying low: Rugged lowland rainforest preferred by feral cats in the Australian Wet Tropics

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Invasive mesopredators are responsible for the decline of many species of native mammals worldwide. Feral cats have been causally linked to multiple extinctions of Australian mammals since European colonization.
Tom Bruce, Stephen E. Williams, Rajan Amin, Felicity L'Hotellier, Ben T. Hirsch   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Daily behavior and interaction of cats (Felis catus) with humans at a canteen in IPB University

Jurnal Natural, 2023
Understanding feral cat behavior can be one of the aspects that is necessary for proper management and taking policy action in controlling the cat population.
LIZA MAHERA, ASTUTI LATIF, SITI SARI AZYATI, HANNY RAMADHANTI, KANTHI ARUM WIDAYATI   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes and practices toward feral cats of male and female dog or cat owners and non-owners in Seoul, South Korea

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
The number of pet cats in South Korea has sharply increased since 2010. Problems have arisen with feral or stray cats, creating conflict among residents, to such an extent that the government provides some sites for people to offer feeding stations for ...
Sun-A. Kim, Claire J. Kenyon, Sejin Cheong, Jenna Lee, Lynette A. Hart   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source