Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it's antelope in Africa ...

Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it’s antelope in Africa ...

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: ...

Wolves returned to Washington state in 2008. A new study shows that, despite their rising numbers, wolves are not having much of an impact on white-tailed deer, one of their primary prey. Scientists ...

Warming river temperatures are causing invasive northern pike to eat more fish, threatening already declining salmon populations.

The world is filled with different environments and ecosystems where plants, animals, and even microbes are constantly competing for survival. Sometimes this type of competition is conducted in pretty ...

A new mathematical model is turning the conventional notion of predator-prey relationships on its head. David Brown and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, have shown that prey ...

What some see as the unofficial mascot of Banff is also a critical part of balancing its delicate ecosystem as its population ...