Predation, herbivory, and parasitism are specific types of antagonistic interactions. In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and ...

Science In the Gulf of California, orcas adopt surprising hunting techniques to target the massive whale shark. This ...

More recently, scientists have discovered that predation can also influence the size of the prey population by acting as a top-down control. In reality, the interaction between these two forms of ...

Scharfstein, David S., and Patrick Bolton. "A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting." American Economic Review 80, no. 1 (March 1990).

The dramatic encounter, which took place over just a few hours, is the largest such predation event ever recorded, both in ...

Boettke, Peter J. and Candela, Rosolino 2019. Productive Specialization, Peaceful Cooperation, and the Problem of the Predatory State: Lessons From Comparative Historical Political Economy. SSRN ...