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

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 ...

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 ...

The government’s move to licence social media services to overcome various problems on the internet, including digital ...

For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species of fish on Earth. This graphic footage proves that whale sharks are a ...

In a simulation or in the wild, where predators are plentiful, male guppies become increasingly drab over generations, pushed by predation pressure toward greater camouflage. So if camouflage ...

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).

These predation events, documented between 2018 and 2024, reveal a coordinated and strategic approach by a pod of killer whales. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and orcas (Orcinus orca) are each ...

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 ...