Burnout. It is a syndrome that is said to afflict humans who feel chronic stress. But after conducting a novel study using trail cameras showing the interactions between white-tailed deer fawns and predators, a Penn State ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2021
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Bahamian mosquitofish in habitats fragmented by human activity are more willing to explore their environment, more stressed by change and have smaller brain regions associated with fear response than mosquitofish from unaffected ...
Ecology
Jul 7, 2021
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How do predators know to avoid brightly-colored toxic prey? A collaboration of researchers has put social information theory to the test in a reliable real-world system to find the answer—by copying what others do, or do ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2021
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Bite marks, in the form of traces left on bones by the teeth of scavengers or predators, are not uncommon in the fossil record. These marks are sometimes impressively large. What they show is that carnivores of the past, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 30, 2021
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What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others?
Ecology
Jun 26, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Florida and Arizona State University has found that removing black stripes on male jumping spiders does not increase their chances of being captured by prey. In their paper published ...
A study conducted in the Una Biological Reserve in the state of Bahia, Brazil, shows that in a habitat with high hunting pressure the risk of predation has such a significant impact on the behavior of the Yellow-breasted ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2021
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New UMD study suggests that everywhere tyrannosaurs rose to dominance, their juveniles took over the ecological role of medium-sized carnivores
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2021
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Infant sharks that live in the familiar mermaids' purses found on most beaches in the UK and throughout the world are more vulnerable to predation because of ocean warming, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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New technology captures never-before-heard sounds of lynx hunting, fighting, and sleeping.
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2021
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