Ecological thresholds and large carnivores conservation: Implications for the Amur tiger and leopard in China [PDF]
, 2020 The ecological threshold concept describes how changes in one or more factors at thresholds can result in a large shift in the state of an ecosystem. This concept focuses attention on limiting factors that affect the tolerance of systems or organisms and
Holyoak, M, Jiang, G, Ning, Y, Qi, J
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Endocranial Morphology of the Extinct North American Lion (Panthera atrox) [PDF]
, 2017 The extinct North American lion (Panthera atrox) is one of the largest felids (Mammalia, Carnivora) to have ever lived, and it is known from a plethora of incredibly well-preserved remains.
Cuff, A R, Goswami, A, Stockey, C
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Big Cat Coalitions: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Brain Volumes in Felidae [PDF]
, 2016 Broad-based species comparisons across mammalian orders suggest a number of factors that might influence the evolution of large brains. However, the relationship between these factors and total and regional brain size remains unclear.
Ani E. Hristova +4 more
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Increasing game prices may alter farmers’ behaviours towards leopards (Panthera pardus) and other carnivores in South Africa [PDF]
, 2017 Human-carnivore conflict occurs globally, particularly in regions where large carnivores predate livestock. Retaliatory killings do occur, and although predation of livestock by carnivores happens, losses from other factors such as disease or injury can ...
Agarwala +81 more
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, 1982 Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
Honacki, James H. +2 more
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A new multiplex qPCR assay to detect and differentiate big cat species in the illegal wildlife trade
Scientific Reports, 2023 All species of big cats, including tigers, cheetahs, leopards, lions, snow leopards, and jaguars, are protected under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is due in large part to population declines resulting from
Carol S. Henger +7 more
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Pleistocene leopards in the Iberian Peninsula: New evidence from palaeontological and archaeological contexts in the Mediterranean region [PDF]
, 2015 This study analyses the fossil record of leopards in the Iberian Peninsula. According to the systematic and morphometric features of new remains, identified mainly in Late Pleistocene palaeontological and archaeological sites of the Mediterranean region,
Díaz, Rebeca +6 more
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Dhole Cuon alpinus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae) rediscovered in Bardia National Park, Nepal
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019 An increasing intensity of camera traps recorded the presence of poorly known and globally Endangered Asiatic Wild Dogs Cuon alpinus from different locations in recent years in Nepal. After 18 years since the previous report, we recorded 29 photos and a
Shailendra Kumar Yadav +5 more
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Limitations to recording larger mammalian predators in savannah using camera traps and spoor [PDF]
, 2015 Traditionally, spoor (tracks, pug marks) have been used as a cost effective tool to assess the presence of larger mammals. Automated camera traps are now increasingly utilized to monitor wildlife, primarily as the cost has greatly declined and ...
Balme G. A. +16 more
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2002 Five years of mortality data of impala Aepyceros melampus, blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus, buffalo Syncerus caffer and kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros have been used to describe the minimum mortality profiles of the respective species in an open ...
H.P. Cronje, B.K. Reilly, I.D. Macfadyen
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