Big cats kill more livestock when wild prey reaches a minimum threshold

I Khorozyan, A Ghoddousi, M Soofi, M Waltert - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Livestock predation by big cats, ie, lion (Panthera leo), tiger (Panthera tigris), leopard
(Panthera pardus), jaguar (Panthera onca), snow leopard (Panthera uncia), puma (Puma …

Scale dependence of felid predation risk: identifying predictors of livestock kills by tiger and leopard in Bhutan

S Rostro-García, L Tharchen, L Abade, C Astaras… - Landscape …, 2016 - Springer
Context Livestock predation by tiger and leopard in Bhutan is a major threat to the
conservation of these felids. Conflict mitigation planning would benefit from an improved …

Catastrophic cat predation: a call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs

KE Moseby, DE Peacock, JL Read - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduced predators have been implicated in the decline of many fauna populations around
the world and are the main factor responsible for the failure of numerous fauna …

Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards

KR Suryawanshi, SM Redpath… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global
livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory …

[HTML][HTML] Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video

H McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
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 …

The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats

R Kays, RR Dunn, AW Parsons, B Mcdonald… - Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Domestic cats (Felis catus) are a conservation concern because they kill billions of native
prey each year, but without spatial context the ecological importance of pets as predators …

[HTML][HTML] Caught on camera: The impacts of urban domestic cats on wild prey in an African city and neighbouring protected areas

CL Seymour, RE Simmons, F Morling… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Domestic cats (Felis catus) have contributed to the extinction of indigenous species
worldwide, but impacts in Africa are unstudied. We compare prey returned home from three …

A triple threat: high population density, high foraging intensity and flexible habitat preferences explain high impact of feral cats on prey

RP Hamer, RZ Gardiner, KM Proft… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Alien mammalian carnivores have contributed disproportionately to global loss of
biodiversity. In Australia, predation by the feral cat and red fox is one of the most significant …

Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: the number of mammals killed in Australia

BP Murphy, LA Woolley, HM Geyle, SM Legge… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Predation by cats (Felis catus) is implicated in the decline and extinction of many Australian
mammal species. We estimate the number of mammals killed by cats across Australia …

Assessing the role of livestock in big cat prey choice using spatiotemporal availability patterns

A Ghoddousi, M Soofi, A Kh. Hamidi, T Lumetsberger… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Livestock is represented in big cat diets throughout the world. Husbandry approaches aim to
reduce depredation, which may influence patterns of prey choice, but whether felids have a …