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Feral Cats: Parasitic Reservoirs in Our Zoos?
Open Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2020 Up until the recent past, zoos served limited function, primarily existing for entertainment value. Today’s zoos, however, are serving many roles, chief among them: species conservation of captive animals. The biggest zoo in Brazil, S?o Paulo Zoological Park Foundation, has among its 2000 animals and many species of wild cats.
Lima, Thalyta Ananias +5 more
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Space use and habitat selection of an invasive mesopredator and sympatric, native apex predator
Movement Ecology, 2020 Background Where mesopredators co-exist with dominant apex predators, an understanding of the factors that influence their habitat and space use can provide insights that help guide wildlife conservation and pest management actions.
Michael L. Wysong +5 more
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Categorisation of cats: Managing boundary felids in Aotearoa New Zealand and Britain
People and Nature, 2023 Management of domestic and wild animals is an integral part of conservation and is often based on how an animal is categorised. For example, feral cats are often killed, while valued companion cats and native wildcats are protected.
Alexandra Palmer, Virginia Thomas
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Sexual cycle of cats and non-invasive diagnostic methods
Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Ґжицького: Серія Ветеринарні науки, 2021 Mostly all feral cats are listed in the IUCN International Red Book. This fact is caused by the negative impact of civilization on the ecosystem, including fauna. This trend applies equally to feral cats from the family Felidae (tigers, jaguars, leopards,
O. V. Burlakova, V. Y. Stefanyk
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Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan, 2016 : Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii that transmitted from animals to humans. Actually, the symptoms of toxoplasmosis are asymptomatic with non-spesific and similar to other diseases.
Prayuani Dwi Agustin, J Mukono
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Determination of Feline calicivirus in cats in Ahvaz district, Southwest of Iran by RT-PCR (a preliminary study) [PDF]
The Iranian Journal of Veterinary Science and Technology, 2013 Feline calicivirus (FCV) is a highly infectious respiratory pathogen of domestic cats with a widespread distribution. In order to assess how FCV circulates in feral and household cats, we have carried out the first study on the FCV detection in Ahvaz ...
Reza Avizeh +3 more
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Fishing for Feral Cats in a Naturally Fragmented Rocky Landscape Using Movement Data
Remote Sensing, 2021 Feral cats are one of the most damaging predators on Earth. They can be found throughout most of Australia’s mainland and many of its larger islands, where they are adaptable predators responsible for the decline and extinction of many species of native ...
Sandra D. Williamson +4 more
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Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk
Conservation Letters, 2022 Many threatened species depend on climatic microrefugia, but places with harsh climates for predators may also play a refugial role. Feral cats threaten many native species in arid Australia. Although cats can persist in regions with no free water, their
Natalie J. Briscoe +5 more
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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 +3 more
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Feral cat population rises on Fernando de Noronha Archipelago
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2021 Fernando de Noronha is an inhabited Brazilian oceanic island, located on an archipelago with the same name. One of the biggest challenges for the archipelago's conservation is the presence of invasive species (IS), such as cats (Felis catus).
Filipe Sobral +5 more
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