ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book has relied heavily on numerous people for comments, data, publications and reference material. Many people provided images or assisted in locating them for the preparation of the plates, in some cases to illustrate species or forms that had never been accurately depicted. For this, particular thanks go to: Francesco Angelici, Sixto Angulo, Rosario Arispe, Jane Ashley-Edmonds, Christos Astaras, Guy Balme, Eyal Bartov, Jerry Belant, Abelardo Rodriguez Bolaños, Jeffrey P. Bonner, Adam Britt, Milo Burcham, Duncan Butchart, Marcelo Carrera, Erika Cuellar, Rogerio Cunha de Paula, Daniela DeLuca, James Eaton, Mohammad Farhadinia, Charles Foley, Nick Garbutt, Oscar E. Murillo García, Arash Ghoddousi, Anthony Giordano, Varad B. Giri, Helle Goldman and Jon Winther-Hansen, Lon Grassman, Andy Hearn, Philipp Henschel, Rafael Hoogesteijn, Bob and Kris Inman, Andy Jennings, Jaime Jimenez, Arlyne Johnson, Calvin Jones, Roland Kays, Marcella Kelly, Barney Long, Leo Maffei, Sean Matthews, Divya Mudappa, Andy Noss, Andres Novaro, Stephane Ostrowski, Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes, Ingrid Porton, Shankar Raman, Justina Ray, Scott Roberton, Jo Ross, Chris Roche, Brian Rode, Carlos A. Saavedra Rodríguez, Fabio Rohe, Steve Ross, Ricardo Sampaio, Jim Sanderson, Kevin Schafer, Alex Sliwa, SOMASPA (Panama), Rob Steinmetz, Simon Stobbs, Chris and Tilde Stuart, Narong Suannarong, Tim Tetzlaff, Fernando Tortato, Marcos Tortato, Sara Tromp and Joe Walston.

I am similarly indebted to the following colleagues, who reviewed sections of the text and commented on plates: Ben Allen, Arturo Caso, Natalie Dawson, Andrew Derocher, Philippe Gaubert, John Goodrich, Andy Hearn, Kris Helgen, Marna Herbst, Jan Kamler, Carlos Behur Kasper, Roland Kays, Tom McCarthy, David MacDonald, Sean Matthews, Dale Miquelle, Divya Mudappa, Tadeu de Oliveira, Alan Rabinowitz, Alan Root and Howard Quigley. For addressing specific queries and providing publications, unpublished data and other comments, I thank Ben Allen, Guy Balme, Nick Brickle, Vincent Burke, Sasha Carvaja, Armando X. Castellanos, Jerry Dragoo, Colin Groves, Lauren Harrington, Frank Hawkins, Roland Kays, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Erin McCloskey, David Macdonald, Kate McFadden, Javier Pereira, Miguel Pinto, Pamela Racobs, Juan Repucci, Jo Ross, Steve Ross, Tainara Venturini Sobroza and Cintia Tellaeche.

I am grateful to Darrin Lunde and Eileen Westwig (American Museum of Natural History, New York) and to Bill Stanley (Field Museum, Chicago) for making available their carnivore skull specimens, and to Sarah Arnoff, Joanna Cagan and Graeme Patterson for photographing them. Sarah also compiled additional reference material for carnivore skulls and footprints. A special thanks to Sally McClarty for executing the wonderful illustrations for these sections. Thank you to the IUCN Red List Unit for material to prepare distribution maps, in particular Craig Hilton-Taylor for permission to use the unit’s spatial data, and Jemma Window and Max Fancourt for assistance in providing those data. Special thanks to Ben Allen, Carlos Benhur Kasper, Peter West and CENAP/ICMBio (Brazil) for assisting with new mapping data.

I am especially grateful to Philippe Gaubert, who provided photographs, publications, unpublished data and invaluable comments on little-known genets, and Geraldine Veron who did likewise for viverrids and herpestids. Kris Helgen very kindly made available his team’s revised classification of hog badgers before it was published and, with Roland Kays, he assisted similarly with his ongoing effort to revise olingo taxonomy. Eduardo Eizirk generously previewed his ongoing analysis of hog-nosed skunk phylogeography. Will Duckworth and Andrew Kitchener commented extensively on the nomenclature and taxonomy of all species. Mike Hoffmann provided a constant stream of new information, publications and contact details from his extensive network. I am very grateful to Olaf Bininda-Emonds, who provided his raw data on carnivore phylogenies. At Panthera, I thank David Katz for compiling measural data and the glossary, Erin Archuleta for double-checking many details during the preparation of the first edition, and Lisanne Petracca for preparing the maps in the second edition.