Image credits
Bloomsbury Publishing would like to thank the following for providing photographs and for permission to produce copyright material. While every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge all copyright holders, we would like to apologise for any errors or omissions and invite readers to inform us so that corrections can be made in any future editions of the book.
Maps by Lisanne Petracca/Panthera
All colour and black and white illustrations by Priscilla Barrett, except p11 Smilodon by Luke Hunter
Charts p7, 8, 237 by Julie Dando, Fluke Art
Photographs
Page numbers refer to the print edition.
Key t=top; tl=top left; right; tr=top right; b=bottom; bl=bottom left; br=bottom right
Photo libraries – FLPA: Frank Lane Photography Agency; NPL: Nature Picture Library; SH: Shutterstock
Throughout the book we have tried to show examples of wild cats in the wild. However, in the absence of such images, photographs of cats taken in captivity have been indicated in the caption with a ‘c’.
Front cover: t/c SH; Back cover: t/c FLPA; half-title: FLPA; contents: Frans Lanting/FLPA; 11 James Tyrrell; 12 Sebastian Kennerknecht; 15 Sebastian Kennerknecht; 16–17 FLPA; 19 Tashi Sangbo; 22 Bernard Castelein/NPL, 23 Michael Breuer/Biosphoto/ FLPA; 24 Alain Mafart-Renodier/FLPA; 25 Tim Wacher; 26 Ann & Steve Toon/NPL; 30, 31, 32, 33 Alex Sliwa; 35 Gerard Lacz/ FLPA; 36 Terry Whittaker/FLPA; 37 Gerard Lacz/FLPA; 39, 40, 41 HardkiPala; 43 Emmanuel Keller; 44 Christian Sperkka; 47 Hyuntae Kim; 48 Nick Garbutt; 49 Gerard Lacz/FLPA; 50 Gerard Lacz/FLPA; 52 Nick Garbutt/NPL; 55 Santosh Saligram; 56 Terry Whittaker/FLPA; 57 David Hosking/FLPA; 59 Nick Garbutt; 60 Parinya Padungtin; 61 Terry Whittaker/FLPA; 63 Sebastian Kennerknect; 66 tr Andrew Hearn/Joanna Ross, b Sebastian Kennerknect; 69 t Terry Whittaker/ FLPA, b JNPC/DWNP/Panthera/WCS Malaysia; 70 Gerard Lacz/ FLPA; 73 Nina Sunden; 74 bl Laila Bahaa-el-din, br Gavin Tonkinson; 76 Mitsuaki Iwago/FLPA; 77 Patrick Kientz/FLPA; 78 Denis-Huot/ NPL; 80 t C&M Stuart Controlled, b Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott/ FLPA; 81 Luke Hunter; 82 Sebastian Kennerknect; 83 Yvonne van der Mey; 84 Anup Shah/NPL; 87 t Laila Bahaa-el-din, b Sebastian Kennerknect; 89 t Sebastian Kennerknect, b Laila Bahaa-el-din/ Panthera; 90 Philipp Henschel; 92 tr Paul Jones, bl Gabriel Rojo/ NPL; 94 Rodrigo Villalobos; 97 Alex Sliwa; 98 Tadeu de Oliveira; 101 Frank Reynier; 102 Terry Whittaker/FLPA; 105 Patrick Meier, 106 Patrick Meier; 107 b Patrick Meier, br Patrick Meier; 108 Larry Wan; 109 Roland Seitre/NPL; 110 Patrick Meier; 113 t Rodrigo Moraga b Alex Sliwa; 114 Fauna Australis/Jerry Laker; 115 Mauro Tammone; 118 tr Luciano Candisani/FLPA; b Sebastian Kennerknect; 120 Alfonso Tapia Saez, 121 Pablo Dolsan, NIS/FLPA; 123 AGA/Rodrigo Villalobos; 124, 125, 126 Antonio Nuñez-Lemos, Antonio Nuñez-Lemos; 128 Bernd Rohrschneider/FLPA; 129 Willi Rolfes/FLPA; 130 Laurent Geslin; 131 Jules Cox/FLPA; 132 Laurent Geslin; 135 David Palacios; 136 Manuel Moral; 137 Wild Wonders of Europe/Pete Oxford/NPL; 138 David Palacios; 141, 142, 143, 144 Barry Rowan; 147 t Michael Quinton/Minden Pictures/FLPA, b Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 148 Michael Quinton/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 149 Mark Newman/FLPA; 150 Michael Quinton/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 151 Chris and Tilde Stuart/FLPA; 153 Urs Hauenstein; 154 Panthera/ SBBD/IDB/ICE; 155 Panthera Colombia; 156 Gerard Lacz/FLPA; 158 Francois Savigny/NPL; 159 Ignacio Yufera/FLPA; 160 Rodgrio Moraga; 161 Sumio Harada/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 162 Sebastian Kennerknecht; 163 Octavio Salles; 164 Thomas Mangelsen/FLPA; 166 Jurgen & Christine Sohns/FLPA; 168 t Frans Lanting/FLPA, b I.R.I DoE/CACP/WCS; 170 Imagebroker/J.rgen Lindenburger / FLPA; 171 Luke Hunter; 172 Nick Garbutt; 173 Winfried Wisniewski/ FLPA; 174 t Frans Lanting/FLPA, b Michel & Christine Denis-Huot/ Biosphoto/FLPA; 175 Suzi Eszterhas/FLPA; 176 Laurent Geslin/NPL; 178 Raghu Chundawat; 179 Jeff Wilson/NPL; 182 Hiroya Minakuchi/ FLPA; 184 Sebastian Kennerknecht; 185 Christian Sperka; 186 Sebastian Kennerknecht; 188 Christian Sperka; 191 Nick Garbutt; 192 Hiroya Minakuchi/FLPA; 193 Vladimir Medvedev/NPL; 194 Andrew Parkinson/NPL; 195 Gerard Lacz/FLPA; 197 Imagebroker. net/FLPA; 198 Andy Rouse/NPL; 200 ImageBroker/FLPA; 201 Imagebroker, Fabian von Poser/Imagebroker/FLPA; 202 Christian Sperka; 203 Brendon Cremer/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 204 Patrick Meier; 205 Brendon Cremer/Minden Pictures/FLPA; 206 Christian Sperka; 207 Patrick Meier; 208 Richard Du Toit/Minden Pictures/ FLPA; 211 t Michael Durham/Minden Pictures/FLPA, b Parinya Padungtin; 213 Chitral Jayatilake; 214 Chitral Jayatilake; 215, 216 Nick Garbutt; 217 Helen Young; 218 Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures/ FLPA; 220 Patrick Meier; 221 Pete Oxford; 222 Nick Garbutt; 223 Patrick Meier; 224 Suzi Eszterhas/FLPA; 225 Leo Keedy/GVI; 226 Paulo Boute; 233 Bivash Pandav/OETI/Panthera.