California treats most non-domesticated wildlife as restricted by default, which is just one reason why it has some of the ...

SD: Totally. Dogs often learn from a young age that water isn’t scary. But most cats, they’re not getting routine baths (which PSA you shouldn’t bathe your cat). But that also means when cats do ...

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We investigated the density and activity of the oncilla, Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775), a threatened small cat, in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, using camera-trap data. We described differences ...

When you think of great animal debates, you mind probably wanders to topics like “would a tiger or lion win in a fight” long before you think about about taxonomy debates. Yet, with lions, there has ...

Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary biologist and NAS member elected in 2018, was previously known for his extensive work in herpetology — specifically anoles. His studies of evolutionary radiation of ...

When we think of big cats, we often imagine lions, tigers, and cheetahs as close relatives, sharing similar evolutionary paths due to their impressive size and predatory nature. However, the feline ...

Bobcats and domestic cats may look similar at first glance, but how closely related are they really? Bobcats are typically ...

The classification of organisms is an important system for understanding how they are all related. Based on the Linnaeus method, organisms are arranged and grouped based on shared characteristics.