Includes bibliographical references (p. [651]-738) and index.

Dramatis personae : an introduction to the wild felids / David W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, and Kristin Nowell -- Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae) / Lars Werdelin ... [et al.] -- Felid form and function / Andrew C. Kitchener, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, and Nobuyuki Yamaguchi -- Genetic applications in wild felids / Melanie Culver ... [et al.] -- Felid society / David W. Macdonald , Anna Mosser, and John L. Gittleman -- People and wild felids : conservation of cats and management of conflicts / Andrew J. Loveridge ... [et al.] -- Many ways of skinning a cat : tools and techniques for studying wild felids / K. Ullas Karanth, Paul Funston, and Eric Sanderson -- Felids ex situ : managed programmes, research, and species recovery / David Wildt ... [et al.] -- Wild felid diseases : conservation implications and management strategies / Linda Munson ... [et al.] -- Ecology of infectious diseases in Serengeti lions / Meggan E. Craft -- African lions on the edge : reserve boundaries as 'attractive sinks' / Andrew J. Loveridge... [et al.] -- Tiger range collapse and recovery at the base of the Himalayas / John Seidensticker ... [et al.] -- The Amur tiger : a case study of living on the edge / Dale G. Miquelle ... [et al.] -- An adaptive management approach to trophy hunting of leopards (Panthera pardus) : a case study from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Guy A. Balme ... [et al.] -- Cheetahs and ranchers in Namibia: a case study / Laurie Marker ... [et al.] -- Past, present and future of cheetahs in Tanzania : their behavioural ecology and conservation / Sarah M. Durant ... [et al.] -- Jaguars, livestock and people in Brazil : realities and perceptions behind the conflict / Sandra M.C. Cavalcanti ... [et al.] -- The ecology of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize / Bart J. Harmsen ... [et al.] -- Snow leopards, conflict, and conservation / Rodney M. Jackson ... [et al.] -- Pumas and people : lessons in the landscape of tolerance from a widely distributed felid / Tucker Murphy and David W. Macdonald -- Long term research on the Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) : historical findings and future obstacles to population persistence / Dave Onorato ... [et al.] -- Reversing cryptic extinction : the history, present and future of the Scottish wildcat / David W. Macdonald ... [et al.] -- The changing impact of predation as a source of conflict between hunters and reintroduced lynx in Switzerland / Urs Breitenmoser ... [et al.] -- Iberian lynx : the uncertain future of a critically endangered cat / Pablo Ferreras ... [et al.] -- Cyclical dynamics and behaviour of Canada lynx in northern Canada / Mark O'Donoghue ... [et al.] -- Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) and African wild cats (Felis silvestris) : a comparison of two small felids from South African arid lands / Alexander Sliwa, Marna Herbst, and M. Gus L. Mills -- Ocelot ecology and its effect on the small-felid guild in the lowland neotropics / Tadeu G. de Oliveira ... [et al.] -- Highland cats : ecology and conservation of the rare and elusive Andean cat / Jorgelina Marino ... [et al.] -- Felid futures : crossing disciplines, borders, and generations / David W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, and Alan Rabinowitz.