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In the mid 1990s I began working with Margay at a captive breeding and reintroduction facility (ProFelis) in Costa Rica, where I spent several years working with captive and wild animals and also on projects to determine prey density in tropical forest canopies. For the past 7 years my research has focused on the Cordillera Talamanca in southern Costa Rica. In 2004 I founded ProCAT (Proyecto Conservacion del Area Talamanca) as a mechanism to get funding to local communities and field assistants to study the ecology of felids in these mountains as well as issues of human-conflict in the surrounding landscapes. We have spent the last 5 years conducting research focused on Jaguar, Puma, and the Little Spotted Cat, however we have also been working to a lesser degree with Margay and Ocelot. Our current work is examining resource partitioning, felid density and abundance of prey.