Quantifying prey preferences of free-ranging Namibian cheetahs : research article

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Prey preferences of the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Felidae: Carnivora): morphological limitations or the need to capture rapidly consumable prey before kleptoparasites arrive? (2006, background): “Numerous studies provided excellent descriptive information on cheetah diet but insufficient information on prey abundance (Graham, 1966; McVittie, 1979; Stander, 1990; Purchase & du Toit, 2000; Cronje, Reilly & MacFadyen, 2002; Marker et al., 2003; Radloff & du Toit, 2004).”
Big cats kill more livestock when wild prey reaches a minimum threshold (2015, methodology): “We took the country midpoints for the nationwide cheetah studies in Namibia and for the jaguar and puma study in anonymous ranches of Venezuela (Marker et al., 2003; Hoogesteijn and Hoogesteijn, 2008; Marker et al., 2010).”
A comparison and critique of different scat‐analysis methods for determining carnivore diet (2011, methodology): “For felids, feeding trials have been conducted with cougars Puma concolor (Ackerman et al. 1984), cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus (Marker et al. 2003), bobcats Lynx rufus (Baker et al. 1993) and lynxes Lynx lynx (Rühe et al. 2007), thus we assumed suitable models were available for all members of this…”