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Drivers of large carnivore density in non‐hunted, multi‐use landscapes

Conservation Science and Practice, 2023
Protected areas serve as population strongholds for many large carnivores, with multi‐use landscapes along their borders forming the front‐lines of wildlife conservation.
Allison L. Devlin, Jacqueline L. Frair, Peter G. Crawshaw Jr, Luke T. B. Hunter, Fernando R. Tortato, Rafael Hoogesteijn, Nathaniel Robinson, Hugh S. Robinson, Howard B. Quigley   +8 more
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Mountain lions (Puma concolor) and their current management: Texas residents’ knowledge and attitudes [PDF]

Nature Conservation
Texas hosts approximately seven percent of the United States of America’s mountain lion (Puma concolor) population, although this estimate might be high due to their non-game status and lack of regulation.
Omar Ohrens, Benjamin Ghasemi, Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski, L. Mark Elbroch   +3 more
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Using a crime prevention framework to evaluate tiger counter-poaching in a Southeast Asian rainforest

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023
Tigers are a conservation-reliant species, as multiple populations face the risk of local extinction due to poaching arising from the continued demand for their body parts. Preventing tiger poaching poses a challenge for the rangers responsible for their
Wai Yee Lam, Wai Yee Lam, Chee-Chean Phung, Zainal Abidin Mat, Hamidi Jamaluddin, Charina Pria Sivayogam, Charina Pria Sivayogam, Fauzul Azim Zainal Abidin, Azlan Sulaiman, Melynda Ka Yi Cheok, Noor Alif Wira Osama, Salman Sabaan, Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, Mark Daniel Booton, Abishek Harihar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Rob Stuart Alexander Pickles   +17 more
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Human-wildlife conflict, benefit sharing and the survival of lions in pastoralist community-based conservancies [PDF]

, 2016
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Blackburn, Sara, Frank, Laurence, Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Matthiopoulos, Jason, Ogutu, Joseph O., Singh, Navinder   +5 more
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Movement patterns and athletic performance of leopards in the Okavango Delta [PDF]

, 2018
Although leopards are the most widespread of all the big cats and are known for their adaptability, they are elusive and little is known in detail about their movement and hunting energetics.
Bertram B, Bertram BCR, Bothma J, Ewer RF, Hamilton PH, Hanby J, Lejeune TM, Martins QE, Norton P, Schaller GB, Sunquist M, Swanepoel LH, Taylor CR   +12 more
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Range extension of Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899 (Mammalia, Cingulata, Chlamyphoridae), in Belize [PDF]

Check List, 2018
Little is known about the Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Cabassous centralis (Miller, 1899). Here we present a new record of C. centralis in the Maya Mountain Massif of Belize, from camera-trap surveys covering an area of 200 km2 conducted yearly ...
Vivian Ruth Soriero, Rebecca Louise Wooldridge, Bart Johannes Harmsen, Mathieu Charette, Vanessa Kilburn, Rebecca Jacqueline Foster   +5 more
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The scaling of postcranial muscles in cats (Felidae) I: forelimb, cervical, and thoracic muscles [PDF]

, 2016
The body masses of cats (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) span a ~300‐fold range from the smallest to largest species. Despite this range, felid musculoskeletal anatomy remains remarkably conservative, including the maintenance of a crouched limb posture at
Adams, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Anyonge, Barclay, Biewener, Biewener, Biewener, Blazevich, Blomberg, Calow, Campione, Carbone, Cavagna, Christiansen, Cuff, Cuff, Cutts, Day, Doube, Elliott, Felsenstein, Fischer, Garland, German, Gonyea, Goslow, Gálvez-Lopéz, Hammer, Heglund, Hildebrand, Hildebrand, Hudson, Hudson, Ilin, Johnson, Jones, Jones, Keller, Kembel, Kitchener, Kleiman, Koob, Lewis, Leyhausen, Leyhausen, Long, Meachen, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Mendez, Molnar, Payne, Peigné, Pierce, Piras, Pollock, Pollock, R Core Team, Randau, Randau, Rasmussen, Ren, Russell, Schaller, Schaller, Smith, Smith, Smith, Sokal, Sunquist, Ueda, Warton, Weyand, Witte, Zhang   +79 more
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Tigers at a crossroads: Shedding light on the role of Bangladesh in the illegal trade of this iconic big cat

Conservation Science and Practice, 2023
Unsustainable wildlife trade is a major threat to many species, but quantifying trade remains challenging, as seizure data provides an incomplete understanding.
Nasir Uddin, Sam Enoch, Abishek Harihar, Rob S. A. Pickles, Alice C. Hughes   +4 more
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Spatial and Temporal Habitat Use by the Main Prey Species of Tigers in Two Protected Areas of Thailand’s Southern Western Forest Complex

Environment and Natural Resources Journal, 2022
Tigers (Panthera tigris) have disappeared from over 90% of their historical range, and extant populations face habitat loss, direct poaching, and prey depletion in otherwise suitable habitats.
Sasi Suksavate, Yutthapong Dumsrisuk, Paitoon Indarabut, Alexander Godfrey, Sutasinee Saosoong, Abishek Harihar, Imran Samad, Ronglarp Sukmasuang, Prateep Duengkae   +8 more
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Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton [PDF]

, 2016
Members of the mammalian family Felidae (extant and extinct cats) are grossly phenotypically similar, but display a 300-fold range in body size, from less than 1 kg to more than 300 kg.
Alvarez, Andrew R. Cuff, Anjali Goswami, Antón, Argot, Bertram, Biewener, Biewener, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Buchholtz, Carbone, Carlson, Cuff, Day, Doube, Ewer, Fabre, Felsenstein, Garland, German, Gonyea, Gonyea, Goswami, Goswami, Goswami, Goswami, Gál, Halpert, Hammer, Head, Hutchinson, Ilin, Irschick, Jenkins, John R. Hutchinson, Johnson, Jones, Jones, Klingenberg, Klingenberg, Koob, Leyhausen, Long, Long, MacDonald, Macpherson, Macpherson, Marcela Randau, Martins, Mattern, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meachen-Samuels, Meloro, Molnar, Moon, Muller, Narita, Nyakatura, Nyakatura, Olson, Paradis, Peigné, Pierce, Pierce, Piras, Polly, Pridmore, Revell, Samuels, Schilling, Shapiro, Shapiro, Slater, Slater, Smit, Stephanie E. Pierce, Sunquist, Turner, Walmsley, Warton, Zhang   +85 more
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