Results show that players’ choices echo predator-prey patterns seen in wildlife, though scientists stress the limits of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract An ecological release from competition or predation is a frequent adaptive explanation for the colonization of novel environments, but ...

A new study, however, finds that this same signal may lure young lobsters to their doom, causing them to try to congregate ...

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Birds, butterflies, beaver and antelope, wildflowers and frogs — could their survival possibly be ...

1. Non-consumptive predator effects have been shown to influence a wide range of behavioural, life history and morphological traits. Extra-pair reproduction is wide Consequently, altered rates of ...

New research published in the journal BioScience describes how the removal large predators is often unrecognized in ecological scholarship, creating an issue of "shifting baselines," with profound ...

A new study reveals how Livestock Guardian Dogs change predator behavior in ways that both protect livestock and support conservation efforts. Led by researchers at the University of Tasmania, Zoos ...

Ecologists from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) and the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have identified significant ecological risks associated ...

The practice of purchasing live animals to keep as pets has become prevalent worldwide, with millions of households acquiring animals each year for the purposes of companionship or entertainment.