Non-invasive monitoring of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris Schreber, 1777): comparative analysis of three different monitoring techniques and evaluation of their integration

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 657-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edoardo Velli ◽  
Marco A. Bologna ◽  
Castelli Silvia ◽  
Bernardino Ragni ◽  
Ettore Randi

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Ruiz-Villar ◽  
José Vicente López-Bao ◽  
Francisco Palomares


2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 1235-1244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Diakou ◽  
Dimitra Psalla ◽  
Despina Migli ◽  
Angela Di Cesare ◽  
Dionisios Youlatos ◽  
...  


2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiola Apostolico ◽  
Francesca Vercillo ◽  
Gianandrea La Porta ◽  
Bernardino Ragni






2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15272-15275
Author(s):  
Stefano Anile ◽  
Sebastien Devillard ◽  
Clayton Kent Nielsen ◽  
Mario Lo Valvo

Longevity data for wild felids are lacking in the literature.  Here we report a camera trap recapture of a European Wildcat Felis silvestris at Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy after nine years.  This individual was clearly identifiable as its tail ended with a white ring rather than the typical black ring and had a unique shape of the dorsal stripe.  At first capture on 26 May 2009, this cat was assessed as an adult, so that the likely minimum age of this individual at the time of recapture on 10 June 2018 must have been be at least 10 years.  This finding represents the oldest known European Wildcat in the wild and provides insight into age structure in wildcat populations.



Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2494
Author(s):  
Fernando Nájera ◽  
Elena Crespo ◽  
Amalia García-Talens ◽  
Rebeca Grande-Gómez ◽  
Francisco Javier Herrera-Sánchez ◽  
...  

Sarcoptic mange caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei is a worldwide-distributed skin infestation with a wide range of hosts, among them several species within the Felidae family. Sarcoptes scabiei was diagnosed in a dead adult female European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) from Spain, based on histological evaluation of skin biopsies and identification of the arthropod from skin scrapings and molecular methods. This is the first description of Sarcoptes scabiei in a European wildcat. Due to its critical demography in the southernmost population of the Iberian Peninsula, the impacts of infectious diseases, including sarcoptic mange, as a new potential threat should be considered during disease surveillance programs of the species’ populations.



2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Kilshaw ◽  
Robert A. Montgomery ◽  
Ruairidh D. Campbell ◽  
David A. Hetherington ◽  
Paul J. Johnson ◽  
...  


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