With fewer than 7,000 left in the wild, the African Wild Dog is a highly social and efficient predator whose survival is ...

New research from the University of Minnesota upends long-held understanding about how wolves, bears and cougars—three of ...

Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 18:288–312. Beckmann, J. P., and J. Berger. 2003a. Rapid ecological and behavioural changes in carnivores: the responses of black bears (Ursus americanus) ...

For nearly 15 years, almost no information was available on the population status of Uganda's large carnivores, including ...

These surprising results are the first to demonstrate a beneficial spillover effect from a strategy to reduce conflict with large carnivores, which play an important role in ecosystems.

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal herbivores and carnivores coexisted at freshwater lagoons some 167 million years ago. A University of Edinburgh team analysed 131 ...

Because carnivores are at the top of the food chain, they promote an ecosystem's overall health. In areas where human activity has eliminated top predators, their former prey — like deer or elk — tend ...

Matambire Mgemaa, a pastoralist in southern Tanzania in the environs of Ruaha National Park, nighttime has meant staying ...

Animals can be put into groups based on the types of food they eat. Some animals called carnivores only eat meat. Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals need to eat so ...

It also implies the transfer of food energy from its source in plants through herbivores to carnivores (Krebs 2009). Normally, food webs consist of a number of food chains meshed together.