Wild Cats of the World by Mel Sunquist and Fiona Sunquist, Chicago University Press, £45, ISBN 0226779998 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett
AS VARIATIONS on the theme of a long-backed retractable- clawed killing machine, today’s 34 species of cat are a fascinating study in behavioural and ecological fine-tuning to environment and prey. Covering all species from the 1.5-kilogram black-footed cat to the 230-kilogram Siberian tiger, Wild Cats of the World collates the latest information on cat ecology, conservation and behavioural ecology.
Mel and Fiona Sunquist – a wildlife ecologist and writer respectively – illustrate every species, even obscure ones such as…
