Fear of the human “super predator” pervades the South African savanna

Fear of large carnivores amplifies human-caused mortality for mesopredators

(2023) Laura R. Prugh et al.   SCIENCE

Ungulates’ Behavioral Responses to Humans as an Apex Predator in a Hunting-Prohibited Area of China

(2023) Mingzhang Liu et al.   Animals

Humanity’s diverse predatory niche and its ecological consequences

(2023) Chris T. Darimont et al.   Communications Biology

Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’

(2022) Daniel A. Crawford et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fear of predators in free-living wildlife reduces population growth over generations

(2022) Marek C. Allen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social Disruption Impairs Predatory Threat Assessment in African Elephants

(2022) Graeme Shannon et al.   Animals

Playbacks of predator vocalizations reduce crop damage by ungulates

(2022) Anna Widén et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah

(2022) Noa L A Rigoudy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

White rhinos and other herbivores decrease visitations and increase vigilance in response to human vocalizations

(2022) Zoliswa N Nhleko et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Inducing fear using acoustic stimuli—A behavioral experiment on moose ( Alces alces ) in Sweden

(2022) Manisha Bhardwaj et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Pumas’ fear of humans precipitates changes in plant architecture

(2021) Veronica Yovovich et al.   Ecosphere

African elephants can detect water from natural and artificial sources via olfactory cues

(2021) Matthew Wood et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa's large population of white rhinos

(2021) Zoliswa N. Nhleko et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient

(2021) Chloe M Reilly et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Evaluating the spatial intensity and demographic impacts of wire-snare bush-meat poaching on large carnivores

(2020) A.J. Loveridge et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

(2020) Peter Lindsey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The inducible defences of large mammals to human lethality

(2020) Robert A. Montgomery et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Randomized hotspot strategy is effective in countering bushmeat poaching by snaring

(2020) Henk Harmsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Cascading impacts of large-carnivore extirpation in an African ecosystem

(2019) Justine L. Atkins et al.   SCIENCE

Alarm calls or predator calls: which elicit stronger responses in ungulate communities living with and without lions?

(2019) Douglas F. Makin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Cause-specific mortality of the world’s terrestrial vertebrates

(2019) Jacob E. Hill et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecotourism for Conservation?

(2019) Amanda L. Stronza et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Scientific Reports

Africa's apex predator, the lion, is limited by interference and exploitative competition with humans

(2019) Kristoffer T. Everatt et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Megaherbivores Modify Trophic Cascades Triggered by Fear of Predation in an African Savanna Ecosystem

(2018) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

(2018) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   SCIENCE

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

(2018) Marlee A. Tucker et al.   SCIENCE

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

(2016) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Nature Communications

Lion (Panthera leo) populations are declining rapidly across Africa, except in intensively managed areas

(2015) Hans Bauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The unique ecology of human predators

(2015) C. T. Darimont et al.   SCIENCE

Behavioural and morphological defences in a fish with a complex antipredator phenotype

(2014) Van Wishingrad et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Lion King and the Hyaena Queen: large carnivore interactions and coexistence

(2014) Stéphanie Périquet et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Climate and the landscape of fear in an African savanna

(2014) Corinna Riginos   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices

(2014) K. McComb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford et al.   SCIENCE

Firth logistic regression for rare variant association tests

(2014) Xuefeng Wang   Frontiers in Genetics

The bushmeat trade in African savannas: Impacts, drivers, and possible solutions

(2013) Peter Andrew Lindsey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Quantifying the effects of diverse private protected area management systems on ecosystem properties in a savannah biome, South Africa

(2013) Matthew F. Child et al.   ORYX

Vulnerability to predation and water constraints limit behavioural adjustments of ungulates in response to hunting risk

(2012) William-Georges Crosmary et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year

(2011) L. Y. Zanette et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial distribution of lion kills determined by the water dependency of prey species

(2010) Willem F. de Boer et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Does the risk of encountering lions influence African herbivore behaviour at waterholes?

(2009) Marion Valeix et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The role of water abundance, thermoregulation, perceived predation risk and interference competition in water access by African herbivores

(2007) Marion Valeix et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY