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Pulling a centipede from its burrow
Photographed this weekend in Dixon Springs, Illinois: These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow. photo details: Canon mp-e… more →
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Aerial-gunning foes ask Obama to ban practice
Alan Gregory wrote 3 weeks ago: This seems like a fairly cut-and-dry thing. Good luck to the petitioners. Their target (no pun inten … more →
Forest Island
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barefootheart wrote 1 month ago: The property neighbouring ours doesn’t have a house on it. It is agricultural land used for gr … more →
Scoundrels - #7
scrubmuncher wrote 1 month ago: Some predators found hunting to be something of a real chore, so over the eons they evolved means of … more →
PREY LEARN THE FUTURE
Matthew Cobb wrote 1 month ago: Predation has shaped the whole of the living world, as prey respond to evolutionary changes in preda … more →
Sexual Selection
Sharmishta wrote 1 month ago: A long while back I came across an article that talked about animal homosexuality. Nothing new in th … more →
Lunch
notme01 wrote 2 months ago: This past summer I worked in an upscale district of Vancouver known as Yaletown. This district used … more →
2D: Population handout answers, notes, animations
timlangford wrote 2 months ago: Here are the answers to that handout that we only took up the first half of: Limits To Populations … more →
Assassin ate
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Ted C. MacRae wrote 2 months ago: I came upon this interesting scene last month while hiking through Allen David Broussard Catfish Cre … more →
HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT: Predators prompt park and beach closures
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Buck Denton wrote 3 months ago: On television, from our sofas, predators can seem fascinating, and in reality, predators such as gre … more →
Pulling a centipede from its burrow
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myrmecos wrote 3 months ago: Photographed this weekend in Dixon Springs, Illinois: These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have … more →
Prey bee mine
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Ted C. MacRae wrote 3 months ago: Promachus hinei preying upon a small carpenter bee Robber flies of the genus Promachus – the s … more →
Why do gecko tails hop around when they drop off?
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Stephen wrote 3 months ago: Here is a great article from Wired.com and shows tbe potential of video analysis in science. It … more →
Great tits took to bat-eating
endrekovacs wrote 3 months ago: An incredible behaviour has been observed in the Bükk Mountains of Hungary. Great tits (Parus major) … more →
HUMAN HUNTING DESTROYS OUR ENVIRONMENT
thomaspainescorner wrote 3 months ago: “Startin’ ‘em young…” By Peter Muller, Vice President, C.A.S.H. … more →
Livestock Guarding Dogs
alpinepub wrote 4 months ago: In the Gran Sasso mountains of central Italy, the Maremma is still an important member of the flock. … more →
More Biblical Cats
Steve Wiggins wrote 4 months ago: In the Bible there are no cats. This silence is odd since cats have been associated with humans for … more →
Is There Life After Democracy?
laudyms wrote 5 months ago: By Arundhati Roy Information Clearinghouse What happens once democracy has been used up? When … more →
Altruism against Predation
saij wrote 5 months ago: This is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator, in the Journal of … more →
An Ant Lion in Action
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myrmecos wrote 5 months ago: An ant, climbing from the pit of a predatory ant lion. The predator, buried in sand at the base of t … more →
