A groundbreaking study reveals a surprising twist: hunting coyotes may actually contribute to their population growth. While ...

For the first time in roughly eighty years, a rare apex predator in the American West has climbed above 200 individuals in ...

Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned.

Slinking beneath the greenery of the Amazon is a cat whose territory far exceeds its stature. Despite weighing less than the ...

Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the world’s largest cities. To control them, people often resort to ...

Stigma against predators and what their presence means has prompted a string of wolf-poisonings in Oregon in the past year alone. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Predators and carnivores: ...

Remington J. Moll, Patrick J. Jackson, Brian F. Wakeling, Carl W. Lackey, Jon P. Beckmann, Joshua J. Millspaugh and Robert A. Montgomery Apex predators can shape communities via cascading top–down ...

A grey wolf prowls through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth Hot Springs in Montana. A group of 66 wolves was reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in the late 1990s. They now total 2,800 ...

Producer interest in using livestock guardian dogs (Canis lupus familiaris; LGDs) to protect domestic cattle (Bos taurus) is driven by expanding large carnivore predator populations and increased ...

Wolves attack two bull elk in Yellowstone National Park. “Le mot juste,” Gustave Flaubert called it, “the right word.” No matter their subject, writers know in their bones that words matter. That is ...