Lions and cheetah are faster, stronger and no less agile than their prey, but zebras and impalas compensate with a surprising tactic, researchers said Wednesday: slow down, and keep the big cats guessing.
Ecology
Jan 24, 2018
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Many animals have evolved to stand out. Bright colours are easy to spot, but they warn predators off by signalling toxicity or foul taste.
Evolution
Dec 18, 2017
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The widespread occurrence of eyespots, from butterflies to fish, has intrigued biologists for years but the mechanism behind their function has, until now, remained unclear.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2017
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The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather than using their added heft ...
Ecology
Jun 15, 2017
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It's a fish-eat-fish world out in the ocean, and prey species usually fear the predators that would make them into a tasty snack.
Ecology
Apr 17, 2017
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A bacterial species that hunts other bacteria has attracted great interest as a potential living antibiotic, but exactly how this predator tracks down its prey has not been clear. A study published March 28 in Biophysical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 28, 2017
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If you build it, they will come. That's historically been a common approach to species recovery: Grow the prey population first and predators will quickly return. As it turns out, that's not quite the case. A new study has ...
Ecology
Feb 27, 2017
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Spiders living together in colonies of tens of thousands can go extinct from sharing food equitably, finds new UBC research.
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2016
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The world's top land carnivores such as tigers, lions and jaguars are coming under threat as their prey dwindles in number, according to the first global study of feeding patterns.
Ecology
Aug 3, 2016
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Why aren't there more lions? That was what puzzled McGill PhD student Ian Hatton, when he started looking at the proportion of predators to prey across dozens of parks in East and Southern Africa. In this case, the answer ...
Ecology
Sep 3, 2015
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