Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists often divide predator species into two camps: ...

Second: "Predators eat significantly smaller prey whose size range does not vary with their own size." These are, for example, baleen whales, which filter feed on krill regardless of age, size or ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing this question, a recent study shows that predator and prey behaviors ...

A publication by Steven G. Platt and Thomas R. Rainwater in the scientific journal “Southeastern Naturalist” revealed an ...

A publication by Steven G. Platt and Thomas R. Rainwater in the scientific journal Southeastern Naturalist discusses an intriguing predator-prey relationship between turtles and fish. Their ...

Organisms live within an ecological community, which is defined as an assemblage of populations of at least two different ...

Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by ...

Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the fruiting bodies of plants and fungi and pass seeds and spores through their ...