Free-Ranging Cats: Behavior, Ecology, Management
Feral and stray domestic cats occupy many different habitats.They can resist dehydration for months by relying exclusively onthe tissue water of their prey allowing them to colonize remotedeserts and other inhospitable
places. They thrive and reproduce in humid equatorial rainforestsand windswept subantarctic islands. In many areas of the worldferal cats have driven some species of birds and mammals toextinction and others to the edge, becoming a huge conservationconcern. With the control of feral and stray cats now a topconservation priority, biologists are intensifying efforts tounderstand cat behaviour, reproductive biology, use of space, intraspecies interaction, dietary requirements, prey preferences, and vulnerability to different management
strategies.
This book provides the most comprehensive review yet published onthe behavior, ecology and management of free-ranging domestic cats, whether they be owned, stray, or feral. It reviews managementmethods and their progress, and questions several widely acceptedviews of free-ranging cats, notably that they live within dominancehierarchies and are highly social.
Insightful and objective, this book includes:
a functional approach, emphasizing sensory biology, reproductive physiology, nutrition, and spacepartitioning;clear treatment of how free-ranging cats should bemanaged;extensive critical interpretation of the world's existingliterature;results of studies of cats in laboratories under controlledconditions, with data that can also be
applied to pet cats.
Free-ranging Cats: Behavior, Ecology, Management isvaluable to ecologists, conservation scientists, animalbehaviorists, wildlife nutritionists, wildlife biologists, researchand wildlife veterinarians, clinical veterinarians, mammalogists, and park and game reserve planners andadministrators.
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