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Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

A while back I read a book about wildlife safari work and they had interesting stories of how honey badgers would wander into camp. You had to let them. 🤪

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762796472/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_XMCT327TPMV5B9V1MR41

These are nearly all either on my shelf or ones I have read and enjoyed:

Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores is a great introduction to many techniques used in the field.

For editorialized books I highly recommend Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams. He wrote it and traveled with a conservation biologist and he himself was a hilarious author. They looked at critically endangered species, including the now-extinct Yangtze River Dolphin.

Whatever You Do, Don't Run was a great read that focused more on stories while working in conservation.

A recent release, Where the Animals Go is a great example of what current scientists are using modern GIS and GPS tools to study. It's a combination of a coffee table book and an interesting read on current conservation techniques.

I haven't read all of it, but Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators has several interesting cases in big cat conservation and reintroduction.

I haven't read Chasing Cheetahs by Laurie Marker but that seems up your alley.

Of course, there are some technical and dry manuals as well, such as the guide for using the program MARK, which is good software to learn (along with the program R, especially). And I have a couple of GIS textbooks.

As for techniques, many manual-style books are pretty dry, and are often compilations of published articles. You may want to try finding accessible articles using any online educational resources you have, as well as creating a ResearchGate account and following cheetah researchers and their projects. You often can request a copy of a paper that is usually behind a paywall, but some people may only check their account less than once a month.

Best of luck!

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