Predation

  1. Earliest octopuses were giant Cretaceous top predators
  2. Dingo-exposed wombats showed stronger scent investigation
    Study examines whether wombats isolated from dingoes for 80 years have lost predator recognition, finding they retain discrimination but show reduced environmental vigilance.
  3. Artificial light at night altered caracal movement and foraging
    GPS collar study investigating artificial light at night effects on caracal movement, habitat selection, and foraging behavior across age classes in urban-adjacent landscapes.
  4. Human disturbance changes predator-prey overlap only in some body size pairs
    Meta-analysis of 480 predator-prey dyads reveals human disturbance restructures temporal niche partitioning according to body mass ratios, with differential consequences for large and small species.
  5. Sika deer use different antipredator behaviors in different situations
    Study reveals how sika deer use whistling, stotting, and rump flaring as context-dependent antipredator behaviors that vary with social conditions, signaler characteristics, and season.
  6. Woodland dormice favored denser, better-connected riverine vegetation
    Microhabitat selection and vegetation structure utilization by Graphiurus murinus in a riverine Combretum forest, assessed through capture-mark-recapture and statistical modeling.
  7. Panthers relied heavily on domestic livestock in winter and summer
    Scatological analysis of Indian leopard diet in Aravalli Hills reveals seasonal hunting patterns and increased domestic livestock predation, indicating prey-base depletion in fragmented landscapes.
  8. Cats for rodent control on dairy farms are not yet supported
    Position paper examining insufficient empirical evidence for deploying desexed cats to control rodents on Australian dairy farms, outlining required monitoring and modeling studies.