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Preface; PART I - REVIEWS; 1. Dramatis personae: an introduction to thewild felids; 2. Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae); 3. Felid form andfunction; 4. Genetic applications in wild felids; 5. Felid society; 6. Peopleand wild felids: conservation of cats and management of conflicts; 7. Manyways of skinning a cat: tools and techniques for studying wild felids; 8.Felids ex situ for managed programmes, research, and species recovery; 9.Wild felid diseases: conservation implications and management strategies;PART II - CASE STUDIES; 10. Ecology of infectious diseases in Serengetilions; 11. African lions on the edge: reserve boundaries as 'attractivesinks'; 12. Tiger range collapse and recovery at the base of the Himalayas;13. The Amur tiger: a case study of living on the edge; 14. An adaptivemanagement approach to trophy hunting of leopards Panthera pardus: a casestudy from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; 15. Cheetahs and ranchers in Namibia:a case study; 16. Past, present and future of cheetahs in Tanzania: theirbehavioural ecology and conservation; 17. Jaguars, livestock and people inBrazil: realities and perceptions behind the conflict; 18. The ecology ofjaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize; 19. Snow leopards,conflict, and conservation; 20. Pumas and people: lessons in the landscape oftolerance from a widely distributed felid; 21. Long term research on theFlorida panther (Puma concolor coryi): historical findings and futureobstacles to population persistence; 22. Reversing cryptic extinction: thehistory, present and future of the Scottish wildcat; 23. The changing impactof predation as a source of conflict between hunters and reintroduced lynx inSwitzerland; 24. Iberian lynx: the uncertain future of a criticallyendangered cat; 25. Cyclical dynamics and behaviour of Canada lynx innorthern Canada; 26. Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) and African wild cats(Felis silvestris): a comparison of two small felids from South African aridlands; 27. Ocelot ecology and its effect on the small-felid guild in thelowland Neotropics; 28. Highland cats: ecology and conservation of the rareand elusive Andean cat; PART III - CONCLUSIONS; 29. Felid Futures: crossingdisciplines, borders, and generations; References; Index