Proceedings of young scientists and specialists of the Samara UniversityProceedings of young scientists and specialists of the Samara University2782-2982Samara National Research University9224Research ArticleCOOCCURENCE OF SMALL WILD CATS AND OTHER CARNIVORES IN THE STEPPE-DESERT BELT OF KAZAKHSTANKrivopalovaAlexandra Yuryevnaalexyks95@gmail.comBarashkovaAnna Nikolaevnayazula@yandex.ruSmelyanskyIlya Eduardovichoppia@yandex.ruTomilenkoAndrey Anatolyevichaatom@ngs.ruSamara UniversityOOO «Siberian Environmental Center»151220192 (15)313824082021Copyright © 2019, Proceedings of young scientists and specialists of the Samara University2019In the article, cooccurrence of carnivorous mammals species of the northern desert and steppe ecosystems of Kazakhstan north of 46º N studied on registration by photo traps. The material was collected in 2013-2018. A total of 73 camera traps worked, of which 39 contained photos of wild cats. There were 11 camera-traps in the western part (North Ustyurt), and 62 in the east part of republic. A total of 12 predator species were recorded. The most common species in the camera traps registration was the red fox, to a lesser degree - Pallas’s cat, Asian badger and steppe pole-cat (more than 18 stations, more than 20 % of occurrence). It has been established that small wild cats often successfully coexist on the same territory with different species of the Mustelidae family, as well as with the fox. Coexistence of small felines with each other is extremely rare.манулстепная кошкарысьсосуществование видовхищные млекопитающиефотоловушкиPallas’s catAsiatic wildcatbobcatspecies coexistencecarnivorescamera traps[Пианка Э. Эволюционная экология. М.: Мир, 1981. 399 с.][Бигон М., Харпер Дж., Таунсенд К. Экология. Особи, популяции и сообщества. М.: Мир, 1989. Т. 2. 477 с.][Формозов А. Н. Животный мир Казахстана. М.: Наука, 1987. 149 с.][Климат Казахстана / под ред. А. С. Утешева. Л.: Гидромет. изд-во, 1959. 370 с.][Сваричевская З. А. Геоморфология Казахстана и Средней Азии. Л.: ЛГУ, 1965. 295 с.][Чупахин В. М. Физическая география Казахстана. Алма-Ата: Мектеп, 1968. 260 с.][Равнины и горы Средней Азии и Казахстана / Геоморфология СССР. М., 1975. 264 с.][Automatic Storage and Analysis of Camera Trap Data / G. Harris, R. Thompson, J. L. Childs [et al.] // Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2010. № 7. P. 352-360.][Sanderson J. G., Harris G. Automatic data organization, storage, and analysis of camera trap pictures // Journal of Indonesian Natural History, 2013. № 1. P. 6-14.][Camerasweet. URL: https://smallcats.org/resources/#camerasweet (дата обращения: 05.03.2018).][Красная книга республики Казахстан. Красная книга Республики Казахстан. Т. I.: Животные; Ч. 1: Позвоночные. Алматы, DPS, 2010. 324 с.][The IUCN red list of threatened species. URL: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ (дата обращения: 04.02.2019).][Млекопитающие Казахстана. Хищные (куньи, кошки) / под общ. ред. Е. В. Гвоздева, Е. И. Страутмана. Алма-Ата: Наука, КазССР, 1982. Т. 3. Ч. 2. 263 с.][Барашкова А. Н. Распространение манула в Казахстане: ещё многое неясно // Степной бюллютень. Бердск: Сибэкоцентр, 2011. № 32. С. 31-32.][Мелкие кошки Евразии. URL: http://wildcats.wildlifemonitoring.ru/ (дата обращения: 5.04.2019).]