wildlife-behavior

Penguins and pebbles are closely linked across the Southern Hemisphere, with stones shaping key behaviors from coastal cues to climate resilience. For many species, pebbles are...

Across the Northern Hemisphere, wolves injure very few people each year and kill fewer still. Reliable tallies show that worldwide, wild wolves are responsible for just a handfu...

Reports of anaconda eating deer describe rare but documented cases where large green anacondas in South America have successfully captured and consume adult deer. This is an exa...

Animal exodus in Yellowstone refers to seasonal and event-driven movements of wildlife as herds and individuals respond to food availability, weather, predation pressure, and hu...

Carnivorous squirrels refer to instances where squirrels, typically herbivorous or omnivorous rodents, consume animal prey such as insects, small vertebrates, eggs, or carrion....

Sand cats can and do eat snakes when the opportunity arises, though snakes are not a staple across their range. As small carnivores adapted to extreme desert conditions, sand ca...

Reports of a python with alligator in stomach describe a rare predator–predator event where a large snake has consumed an alligator, often documented through necropsy or wildl...

When a lion kills a hunter, it typically occurs in regions where lions and humans overlap, often during lawful or illegal hunting activities. Verified incidents involve complex...

When people search coyotes kill, they usually want to understand how often coyotes kill, what they kill, and how worried they should be. Coyotes are adaptable omnivores that kil...

Seal surfing describes the behavior sometimes observed when seals ride the face or shoulder of waves, either near shore or farther out at sea. It is not a formal technical term...