Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey. In the animal kingdom, predators rely ...

There had been reports of other fish species following sea robins around, perhaps deputizing the legged fish as scouts to track down out-of-sight prey. Some decades-old papers had detected neural ...

ruptor keeps engulfed algae in a special compartment. Enzymes in this chamber appear to dissolve one side of the prey’s cell wall. The other side is attached to the chamber wall. As the ...

Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped inside the cavities of their broken teeth have revealed new insights into the prey the so-called Tsavo man-eaters once hunted. The harrowing ...

More recently, scientists have discovered that predation can also influence the size of the prey population by acting as a top-down control. In reality, the interaction between these two forms of ...

Some species of sea robins, such as Prionotus carolinus, also use their legs to dig up prey buried in the sand. (They’re so good at hunting that other fish are known to opportunistically follow ...

Predation provides energy to prolong the life and promote the reproduction of the organism that does the killing, the predator, to the detriment of the organism being consumed, the prey.

Octopuses are even more sophisticated than we thought. Despite generally being solitary animals, they can work with fish to find prey and recognise which team members aren’t helping. That is the ...

Prey species must be well adapted to escape predators for their species to continue. If the prey population in an ecosystem grows, predator numbers will respond to the increased food supply by ...

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The numbers of predators and prey for certain ecosystems such as the Canadian Lynx (wild cat) and hare have been recorded over many years and found to change in a regular cycle. A similar example ...