The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour Book

List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements;

Part I. Introduction:

1. Why the cat? Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson;

Part II. Development of Young Cats:
2. Behavioural development in the cat Patrick Bateson;
3. Factors influencing the mother-kitten relationship John M. Deag, Aubrey Manning and Candace E. Lawrence;
4. Individuality in the domestic cat: origins, development and stability Michael Mendl and Robert Harcourt;

Part III. Social Life:
5. The signalling repertoire of the domestic cat and its undomesticated relatives John Bradshaw and Charlotte Cameron-Beaumont;
6. Group-living in the domestic cat: its sociobiology and epidemiology David W. Macdonald, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi and Gillian Kerby;
7. Density, spatial organisation and reproductive tactics in the domestic cat and other felids Olof Liberg, Mikael Sandell, Dominique Pontier and Eugenia Natoli;

Part IV. Predatory Behaviour:
8. Hunting behaviour of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations B. Mike Fitzgerald and Dennis C. Turner;

Part V. Cats and People:
9. Domestication and history of the cat James A. Serpell;
10. The human-cat relationship Dennis C. Turner;
11. Feline welfare issues Irene Rochlitz;

Part VI. Postscript:
12. Questions about cats Patrick Bateson and Dennis C. Turner; Index.