The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

Individual organisms in a community interact in many different ways. An interaction may benefit both individuals, or the interaction may benefit one organism to the detriment of the other. An ...

Animals often get labeled as either predators or prey. But in the wild, survival isn’t always a one-animal job. Some species form partnerships that help them find food, avoid danger, or raise young.

Some animals use a fascinating survival trick called thanatosis, or playing dead, to escape predators. This behaviour ...

Aggressive or Peckhamian mimicry, named after arachnologist Elizabeth G. Peckham, is the classic ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, when the mimic pretends to be harmless to dupe its mark.

Apex predators in the Himalayas manage to coexist because they target different prey species, a study in the Public Library ...

I've long been interested in ways in which humans can peacefully coexist with so-called "problem" animals, including predators. In most cases, conservation protocols that call for killing these ...