%0 Book %B Princeton Field Guides %D 2009 %T Mammals of North America, second edition %A R. W. Kays %A Wilson, D. E. %K biology %B Princeton Field Guides %I Princeton University Press %C Princeton, New Jersey %G eng %U https://books.google.com/books?id=YjIIRZwbWIEC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mammals%20of%20North%20America%2C%20second%20edition&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Mammals%20of%20North%20America,%20second%20edition&f=false %0 Magazine Article %D 2006 %T The Mane Thing about Lions %A R. W. Kays %K biology %B Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum %V 2 %P 7 %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 2006 %T My Kingdom for a Crown %A R. W. Kays %K biology %X

The article relates the author's experience of capturing Bobby, an oversize ocelot. The author and his colleagues tracked Bobby using various equipment. It had the ability to cover more than three and a half square miles on its nightly patrols. They inadvertently caught Bobby in a trap intended for a puma. It was a shock for the author and his colleagues to find Bobby in such trap. Nevertheless, it did allow them to check Bobby's weight and replace its radio collar before its batteries ran down. They were stunned to find out that Bobby weighed forty-one pounds, making it the largest ocelot in the world.

%B Natural History %V 115 %P 72 %G eng %U http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/20640120/my-kingdom-crown %0 Magazine Article %D 2005 %T Mapping Mammals: Moving from Paper Tags to Digital Maps %A R. W. Kays %K biology %B Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum %V 1 %P 3-4 %G eng %0 Book %D 2002 %T Mammals of North America %A R. W. Kays %A Wilson, D. E. %K biology %I Princeton University Press %C Princeton, New Jersey %G eng %U https://books.google.com/books?id=9lcpz4XSUsEC&lpg=PP8&ots=O9u_N-2JON&dq=%22Mammals%20of%20North%20America%22%20Kays%202002&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%22Mammals%20of%20North%20America%22%20Kays%202002&f=false %0 Journal Article %J Canadian Journal of Zoology %D 2002 %T Mane Variation in African Lions and Its Social Correlates %A R. W. Kays %A Patterson, B. D. %K Kenya %K lions %K manes %K Panthera leo %K social organization %K Tsavo National Park %X

Manes are generally thought to characterize all adult male lions (Panthera leo). Here we document a population of lions in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, that is largely maneless and describe aspects of their social organization. Because Tsavo's arid landscape supports sparse prey populations, we expected that surveys of lions there would document small social groups. We hypothesized that Tsavo lions would consequently experience reduced sexual selection pressures for mane development. Adult males from Tsavo typically have sparse blond hair forming a dorsal crest, beard, chest tufts, and (or) sideburns, but lack the large flowing manes reported from other lion populations. No fully maned lions were seen. Maneless males in Tsavo appear to be well integrated into pride life, and were observed copulating, hunting, and otherwise interacting with groups of females, playing with dependent cubs, and advertising territories with scent markings and roars. Only one adult male was observed in each of five prides, which differs surprisingly from the coalitions of 2–4 pride males noted in other lion groups. However, female group size was large (mean 7.4) and comparable with what has been documented in the Serengeti and elsewhere, refuting our "group size – mane size" hypothesis. Future research should focus on the effect of Tsavo's physical and physiological effects on mane condition, and the possible correlation of male hormone levels with both manelessness and small male-group size.

%B Canadian Journal of Zoology %V 80 %P 471-478 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z02-024 %R 10.1139/z02-024 %0 Journal Article %J Molecular Ecology %D 2000 %T Microsatellite Analysis of Kinkajou Social Organization %A R. W. Kays %A Gittleman, J. G. %A Wayne, R. K. %K Carnivora %K Dispersal %K paternity %K patrilineal %K Potos %K relatedness %X

Kinkajou social groups generally consist of one adult female, two males, one subadult and one juvenile. Based on analysis of variation in 11 microsatellite loci, we assess the degree of kinship within and between four social groups totaling 25 kinkajous. We use exclusion and likelihood analyses to assign parents for seven of the eight offspring sampled, five with ≥ 95% certainty, and two with ≥ 80% certainty. Five of six identified sires of group offspring came from the same social group as the mother and pup. Adult males and females within a group were unrelated and subadults and juveniles were offspring of the group adults, suggesting a family structure. All five identified paternities within a social group were by the dominant male of the group. However, this copulation asymmetry does not necessarily reflect cooperation due to kinship ties between the two adult males within a group as one of two adult male pairs sampled was unrelated. Neighbouring male kinkajous were more closely related to each other than neighbouring female kinkajous, suggesting that females disperse more often or farther than males.

%B Molecular Ecology %V 9 %P 743-751 %G eng %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00921.x/abstract %R 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00921.x