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Max Allen (1977- ) is a carnivore ecologist, author, and photographer, with the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois. Max was born in central Vermont, and has lived throughout the American west and New Zealand. He was awarded his PhD in Conservation Biology from Victoria University of Wellington in 2014, for his dissertation entitled The Ecology and Behaviour of Pumas (Puma concolor) in Northern California. Max is an award-winning photographer (max-allen.artistwebsites.com), and published his first book - The Itinerant Photographer - in 2010. He has worked for a diverse group of government agencies and non-profit corporations in his diverse career as a park ranger, teacher, and wildlife biologist.

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Effects of snow leopards on the marking behavior of Pallas's cats

An image of a Pallas's cat from a camera trap during a study in Mongolia

These days I spend a lot more time writing research articles for peer-reviewed journals than writing books about wildlife and photography. In our recent research article, we assessed the scent-marking behavior of Pallas' cats. The full article is available as a pdf (free) from my website:
https://publish.illinois.edu/maxallen. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 10, 2023 08:54 • Tags: ecology, manul, mate, pallas-s-cat, scent, science, snow-leopard

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	The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs from Five Years of Wandering with Wildlife and the Stories behind Them 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Side of Nowhere: Wildlife photography from northwest Colorado 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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