Animal cognition and culture mediate predator–prey interactions

Social learning of innovations in dynamic predator-prey systems

(2023) David Kikuchi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants

(2023) Robert J. P. Heathcote et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis reveals a high level of dietary specialization in killer whales across the North Atlantic

(2023) Anaïs Remili et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics

(2023) F. Blake Morton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Native predators can learn new prey cues to overcome naivete and hunt novel alien prey

(2023) Finn C.G. Parker et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Cognitive performance is linked to fitness in a wild primate

(2023) Claudia Fichtel et al.   Science Advances

Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions

(2022) Justin P. Suraci et al.   OIKOS

Toxic Relationships and Arms-Race Coevolution Revisited

(2022) G.M. Bucciarelli et al.   Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands

(2022) Erick J. Lundgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Predator protection dampens the landscape of fear

(2022) Eamonn I. F. Wooster et al.   OIKOS

Viewing animal migration through a social lens

(2022) Ellen O. Aikens et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk

(2022) Meredith S. Palmer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cognition contra camouflage: How the brain mediates predator-driven crypsis evolution

(2022) Wen Bo Liao et al.   Science Advances

Environmental, individual and social traits of free-ranging raccoons influence performance in cognitive testing

(2022) Lauren A. Stanton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A comprehensive review of mammalian carnivore translocations

(2022) Ben Stepkovitch et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Predicting kill sites of an apex predator from GPS data in different multiprey systems

(2022) Teresa Oliveira et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The burgeoning reach of animal culture

(2021) Andrew Whiten   SCIENCE

Predation landscapes influence migratory prey ecology and evolution

(2021) Megan C. Sabal et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Purr‐fect Catch: Using accelerometers and audio recorders to document kill rates and hunting behaviour of a small prey specialist

(2021) Emily K. Studd et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear

(2021) Eamonn I F Wooster et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot

(2021) Barbara C. Klump et al.   SCIENCE

Social information use by predators: expanding the information ecology of prey defences

(2021) Liisa Hämäläinen et al.   OIKOS

Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing

(2021) Briana Abrahms et al.   Nature Communications

Multilayer social networks reveal the social complexity of a cooperatively breeding bird

(2021) Nikola Dragić et al.   iScience

Behavioural diversity of bonobo prey preference as a potential cultural trait

(2020) Liran Samuni et al.   eLife

Variation in reversal learning by three generalist mesocarnivores

(2020) Lauren A. Stanton et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Predator–Prey Interactions in the Anthropocene: Reconciling Multiple Aspects of Novelty

(2019) Peter W. Guiden et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal cultures matter for conservation

(2019) Philippa Brakes et al.   SCIENCE

Landscapes of Fear: Spatial Patterns of Risk Perception and Response

(2019) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecosystem Function and Services of Aquatic Predators in the Anthropocene

(2019) Neil Hammerschlag et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cultural Evolution in Animals

(2019) Andrew Whiten   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Trophic rewilding establishes a landscape of fear: Tasmanian devil introduction increases risk‐sensitive foraging in a key prey species

(2019) Calum X. Cunningham et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species

(2018) Lisa P. Barrett et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

(2018) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting Predator Recognition in a Changing World

(2018) Alexandra J.R. Carthey et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Prey naïveté and the anti-predator responses of a vulnerable marsupial prey to known and novel predators

(2018) Eleanor C. Saxon-Mills et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals

(2018) Brett R. Jesmer et al.   SCIENCE

Migratory coupling between predators and prey

(2018) Nathan B. Furey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Predator exposure improves anti-predator responses in a threatened mammal

(2017) Rebecca West et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Resource depletion through primate stone technology

(2017) Lydia V Luncz et al.   eLife

Learning about aposematic prey

(2016) John Skelhorn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Shrub encroachment is linked to extirpation of an apex predator

(2016) Christopher E. Gordon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns of whooping cranes in response to global change

(2016) Claire S. Teitelbaum et al.   Nature Communications

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

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

Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade

(2015) Adam T. Ford et al.   ECOLOGY

What is an apex predator?

(2015) Arian D. Wallach et al.   OIKOS

How Nature-Based Tourism Might Increase Prey Vulnerability to Predators

(2015) Benjamin Geffroy et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Naïveté in novel ecological interactions: lessons from theory and experimental evidence

(2014) Alexandra J. R. Carthey et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Prey Responses to Predator's Sounds: A Review and Empirical Study

(2014) Alexandra M. Hettena et al.   ETHOLOGY

Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

(2014) A. T. Ford et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

A practical guide to avoid giving up on giving-up densities

(2013) Miguel A. Bedoya-Perez et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Predator-prey interactions, flight initiation distance and brain size

(2013) A. P. Møller et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Network-Based Diffusion Analysis Reveals Cultural Transmission of Lobtail Feeding in Humpback Whales

(2013) J. Allen et al.   SCIENCE

Killer whale ecotypes: is there a global model?

(2012) P. J. N. de Bruyn et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Growth rate and retention of learned predator cues by juvenile rainbow trout: faster-growing fish forget sooner

(2011) Grant E. Brown et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows

(2011) H. N. Cornell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

(2011) Tim M. Blackburn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Prey or predator? Body size of an approaching animal affects decisions to attack or escape

(2010) William E. Cooper et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade

(2010) Matthew J. Kauffman et al.   ECOLOGY

Predator control promotes invasive dominated ecological states

(2010) Arian D. Wallach et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking learning adaptation to trophic interactions: a brain size-based approach

(2010) Michio Kondoh   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

More than Mere Numbers: The Impact of Lethal Control on the Social Stability of a Top-Order Predator

(2009) Arian D. Wallach et al.   PLoS One

The Evolution of Animal Weapons

(2008) Douglas J. Emlen   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The nature of culture: Technological variation in chimpanzee predation on army ants revisited

(2008) Caspar Schöning et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Mammal-eating killer whales, industrial whaling, and the sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: A reply to critics of Springer et al. 2003

(2008) A. M. Springer et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Statistical modeling of North Atlantic right whale migration along the mid-Atlantic region of the eastern seaboard of the United States

(2007) Jeremy Firestone et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION