This page contains 9 annotated bibliographies of my most important sources that I used in my essay.
Review of the Scientific Literature
Barry, Kimberly J, and Sharon L Crowell-Davis. “Gender Differences in the Social Behavior of the Neutered Indoor-Only Domestic Cat.” ScienceDirect, 1 July 1999, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159199000301?casa_token=TDiFq0zPVZAAAAAA:a6af2Mua3jtat_SR_tLy5mGDHOWBbdAjpogVPYpI69g1UGwbytrtV3e7uv6WT-8cyKnyD3QI3Z0.
In the article "Gender Differences in the Social Behavior of the Neutered Indoor-only Domestic Cat," the author Kimberly J Barry has an interest in the social behavior of animals, and second author Sharon L Crowell-Davis is interested in pets, cats and dogs in particular, and studying their behaviors. The research article intended to prove that domestic cats are social species within the group of cats. Gender is not the determinant for whether a certain cat has social intelligence or not. The authors build an experiment within cat owners and figure out whether gender is a determinant of aggressive behavior. Although they did find out that females do not display allorub, there no significant relationship between gender and social intelligence in cats. This article is the base, and my two other pieces build on it. It helps me to set the tone of my literature review.
Vitale, Kristyn R, and Monique A.R. Udell. “The Quality of Being Sociable: The Influence of Human Attentional State, Population, and Human Familiarity on Domestic Cat Sociability.” ScienceDirect, 1 Jan. 2019, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635718300998?casa_token=C7YoYI3gTv0AAAAA:AQ5wnX1rRNxbq8K_a8QGOIRIM6-FPUGBwYzttgqSNVxIQoS3UOvC3OtvQB2sNu7Owm3K7dNHb6g.
In the article "The Quality of Being Sociable: The Influence of Human Attentional State, Population, and Human Familiarity on Domestic cat Sociability," authors Kristyn R. Vitale, focus on cat social, training, and science, and Monique A.R. Udell, focus on Animal Behavior & Cognition, Animal Learning, Behavior Modification, and Enrichment, are professors of the department of animal and rangeland science, Oregon State University. They testify that individual variation is an essential consideration in cat social behavior. They also detect a human-cat bond, which indicates that cats can detect human attentional state and modify their behavior in response. The article is similar to Barry's, but it narrows down to human-cat bond with a more centralized focus.
Zhang, Lingna. “Feline Communication Strategies When Presented with an Unsolvable Task: The Attentional State of the Person Matters.” Animal Cognition, 2 Apr. 2021, link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-021-01503-6?error=cookies_not_supported&code=eb73d126-b396-45cc-b0a6-678c72ad6dfe#:%7E:text=Significant%20interaction%20was%20observed%20between,only%20during%20the%20unsolvable%20test.
In the article "Feline Communication Strategies When Presented with an Unsolvable Task: The Attentional State of the Person Matters," the author Lingna Zhang is PhD in animal physiology, behavior and welfare. Texas Tech University. She has an interested in Laboratory of Animal Behavior, Physiology and Welfare. During her research, significant interaction was observed between test and caregiver’s attentional state on the expression of sequential behavior, a type of showing behavior.
Definition of the Problem
Loss, Scott R., et al. “The Impact of Free-Ranging Domestic Cats on Wildlife of the United States.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 29 Jan. 2013, www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380.
In the article "The Impact of Free-ranging Domestic Cats on Wildlife of the United States," written by Scott R. Loss, an associated professor, focusing on wildlife ecology in the Oklahoma State University, cat predation is likely to be substantial in all parts of the world where free-range cats occur.
Kays, R., et al. “The Small Home Ranges and Large Local Ecological Impacts of Pet Cats.” ZSL Publications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 11 Mar. 2020, zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12563.
According to Roland Kays, a scientist at North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in her article “The Small Home Ranges and Large Local Ecological Impacts of Pet Cats,” hunting by house cats can have big effects on local animal populations because they kill more prey, in a given area than similar-sized wild predators.
Trouwborst, Arie, et al. “Domestic Cats and Their Impacts on Biodiversity: A Blind Spot in the Application of Nature Conservation Law.” Besjournals, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 4 Feb. 2020, besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10073.
According to the article "Domestic Cats and Their Impacts on Biodiversity: A Blind Spot in the Application of Nature Conservation Law," the author Arie Trouwborst, an Associate Professor of Environmental Law in the Tilburg University, mainly interested in understanding and improving the contribution of (international and European) law to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity. He argues that "free-ranging domestic cats Felis catus, from owned pets to feral cats, impact bio- diversity through predation, fear effects, competition, disease and hybridization." (Trouwborst 235)
Solutions to the Problem
Ruxton, Graeme D., et al. “Bells Reduce Predation of Wildlife by Domestic Cats (Felis Catus).” ZSL Publications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 28 Feb. 2006, zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1017/S0952836902000109.
In the article "Bells Reduce Predation of Wildlife by Domestic Cats (Felis Catus)," the main author Graeme Ruxton, a zoologist known for his research into behavioural ecology and evolutionary ecology. He and his team found out that cat owners "are unbiased recorders of prey delivery; empirical testing of this assumption would be useful." (Ruxton 82)
Lilith, Maggie, et al. “Protecting Wildlife from Predation by Owned Domestic Cats: Application of a Precautionary Approach to the Acceptability of Proposed Cat Regulations.” Wiley Online Library, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 3 Mar. 2006, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01582.x.
In the article "Protecting Wildlife from Predation by Owned Domestic Cats: Application of a Precautionary Approach to the Acceptability of Proposed Cat Regulations," the author Maggie Lilith, an professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University. Lilith and her team found out that "in determining actions to reduce plausible risk to the environment where uncertainty over the true magnitude of the risk is high." (Lilith 187)
https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FactSheet-FeralCats_FINAL-1.pdf
The fact sheet made by the Wildlife Society conclude domestic cats' predatory and behavior affects on local environment.