Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

But jackdaws have a shortcut. A new study suggests these clever birds learn to recognize predators by eavesdropping on the adults around them. By linking adult alarm calls to unfamiliar sounds, ...

Across land, sea, and air, they use a mix of stealth, mimicry, and lightning-fast attacks to feed, and in some cases, defend themselves.

These powerful animals sit at the very top of the food chain with virtually no natural enemies to fear. From massive ocean giants to land predators that dominate their habitats, each species plays by ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Animals employ diverse survival strategies beyond speed, using erratic movements, visual displays, and warning colors to ...

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 ...

Some wasps and frogs evolved similar chemicals that cause pain in predators, even though the species are not closely related.

A study examining fossil evidence shows that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago. University of Toronto Mississauga researchers Jordan M.