Flesh-eating squirrels which hunt down and devour voles have been spotted for the first time in the wild. Until now, squirrels were thought to be primarily vegetarian, cramming their cheeks full of ...

The archerfish is renowned for its unique predatory technique that involves dislodging aerial prey using a precisely aimed jet of water. This remarkable behaviour is underpinned by a sophisticated ...

California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi) might look like your run of the mill bushy-tailed rodent. But these squirrels are anything but ordinary. For the first time, they have been ...

My family is full of hunters, and over the past several years, they have watched their hunting seasons change in real and ...

We think of squirrels as adorably harmless creatures, admiring their bushy tails and twitchy little noses and the way they cram their cheeks with nuts or seeds to bring back to their nests for later.

It's easy to assume that the only thing a cute little squirrel poses a threat to is a nut, but it turns out they could have more of a murderous streak than we realized. After watching squirrels in ...

Some species of European bats are known to attack birds as they migrate to Africa. However, they must trap them while in flight: a hard task for such small predators. The behaviour has previously been ...

A rare and dramatic encounter with transient killer whales has been documented off the coast of Victoria, offering a glimpse ...

Hunters have been trying to understand how the moon affects animal behavior since cavemen etched pictographs on cave walls. Today, biologists acknowledge a link between the full moon and estrus cycles ...

Whether humans should hunt nonhuman animals (animals) raises many complicated questions. 1 This is among the many reasons that I found a new book by wildlife biologist, falconer, farmer, and practical ...