Table of Contents:
  • Why the cat? / Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson
  • Behavioural development in the cat / Paul Martin and Patrick Bateson
  • Factors influencing the mother-kitten relationship / John M. Deag, Aubrey Manning and Candace E. Lawrence
  • Individuality in the domestic cat / Michael Mendl and Robert Harcourt
  • The tame and the wild
  • another Just-so story? / Paul Leyhausen
  • Cat society and the consequences of colony size / G. Kerby and D.W. Macdonald
  • Spatial organisation and reproductive tactics in the domestic cat and other felids / Olof Liberg and Mikael Sandell
  • The mating system of feral cats living in a group / Eugenia Natoli and Emanuele De Vito
  • Hunting behaviour of the domestic cat / Dennis C. Turner and Othmar Meister
  • Diet of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations / B.M. Fitzgerald
  • The domestication and history of the cat / James A. Serpell
  • The human-cat relationship / Eileen B. Karsh and Dennis C. Turner
  • Practical aspects of research on cats / Claudia Mertens and Rosemarie Schar
  • Questions about cats / Patrick Bateson and Dennis C. Turner.