The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has been ...

Almost all animals eat living things, so in a sense most are predators. We normally restrict the term, though, to cases in which the animal chases and kills its prey. Nevertheless, the models we will ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The scent of a ...

A new study suggests that the impact of predation on juvenile Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska has been significantly underestimated, creating a "productivity pit" from which their population ...

Researchers used a wide-scale acoustic mapping technique to track capelin, left, and cod populations. In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast ...

Using clay caterpillar replicas as bait for predators, Cornell graduate John Deitsch ’22 found that increased artificial light enhances caterpillar predation. Deitsch graduated from Cornell in 2022 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Before an animal can evaluate the benefits and costs associated with a particular behavior, it must first assess them. Since perfect ...