#mesopredators — Public Fediverse posts

From fear to feast: how do mesopredators navigate the landscape of fear? Da Cunha et al. show that rattlesnakes optimize their foraging by increasing chances of prey capture while reducing predator detection in natural settings.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/738529

#Mesopredators #Rattlesnakes #EEB

From fear to feast: how do mesopredators navigate the landscape of fear? Da Cunha et al. show that rattlesnakes optimize their foraging by increasing chances of prey capture while reducing predator detection in natural settings.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/738529

#Mesopredators #Rattlesnakes #EEB

From fear to feast: how do mesopredators navigate the landscape of fear? Da Cunha et al. show that rattlesnakes optimize their foraging by increasing chances of prey capture while reducing predator detection in natural settings.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/738529

#Mesopredators #Rattlesnakes #EEB

From fear to feast: how do mesopredators navigate the landscape of fear? Da Cunha et al. show that rattlesnakes optimize their foraging by increasing chances of prey capture while reducing predator detection in natural settings.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/738529

#Mesopredators #Rattlesnakes #EEB

From fear to feast: how do mesopredators navigate the landscape of fear? Da Cunha et al. show that rattlesnakes optimize their foraging by increasing chances of prey capture while reducing predator detection in natural settings.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/738529

#Mesopredators #Rattlesnakes #EEB

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

here's another PR on those #mesopredators, this time with a photo and a catchier headline:
18-May-2023
Out of the frying pan: Coyotes, bobcats move into human-inhabited areas to avoid apex predators — only to be killed by people

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988900 #science #ecology

here's another PR on those #mesopredators, this time with a photo and a catchier headline:
18-May-2023
Out of the frying pan: Coyotes, bobcats move into human-inhabited areas to avoid apex predators — only to be killed by people

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988900 #science #ecology

here's another PR on those #mesopredators, this time with a photo and a catchier headline:
18-May-2023
Out of the frying pan: Coyotes, bobcats move into human-inhabited areas to avoid apex predators — only to be killed by people

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988900 #science #ecology

Medium-sized carnivorous species – #mesopredators like #coyotes or #bobcats – tend to move into human-dominated areas to avoid predation by larger carnivores, a phenomenon also known as the #HumanShield effect. However, according to a new study, doing so places these safety-seeking species at considerably greater risk for mortality due to human activities. The findings describe a “paradox of the lethal human shield” for mesopredators,
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/989284 #science #ecology

Medium-sized carnivorous species – #mesopredators like #coyotes or #bobcats – tend to move into human-dominated areas to avoid predation by larger carnivores, a phenomenon also known as the #HumanShield effect. However, according to a new study, doing so places these safety-seeking species at considerably greater risk for mortality due to human activities. The findings describe a “paradox of the lethal human shield” for mesopredators,
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/989284 #science #ecology

Medium-sized carnivorous species – #mesopredators like #coyotes or #bobcats – tend to move into human-dominated areas to avoid predation by larger carnivores, a phenomenon also known as the #HumanShield effect. However, according to a new study, doing so places these safety-seeking species at considerably greater risk for mortality due to human activities. The findings describe a “paradox of the lethal human shield” for mesopredators,
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/989284 #science #ecology