Predators

Researchers from the Southwest Florida Conservation Society watched a 4.5-foot-long Burmese python swallow a 35-pound moose in Everglades National Park. Credit: Ian Bartoszek/Southwest Florida Conservation Society

A Burmese python swallows a whole stag weighing 35 kg

Research on giant snakes that infiltrated the wild in Florida: the size of the mouth of the Burmese pythons is larger than expected, allowing them to devour huge prey - with significant consequences for the ecosystem in Florida
Most of the wolves in Israel are found in the Golan Heights and the Arabah. Photo: Shlomo Priceblom

About wolves and other animals: how does the predator affect the mammals in the Golan Heights?

A new Israeli study examined how the presence of wolves affects the activity of large mammals. The findings reinforce the importance of the predator in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem
A female golden jackal in Yarkon Park. Photo: Artemy Voikhansky, Wikipedia.

Predators - enemies or friends?

Reconstruction of a 300-million-year-old tiny carnivore known as Eocasea, within a footprint of the largest herbivore of the period 270 million years ago, the Cotylorhynchus. Illustration: Daniel Dufo

The ancestor of the herbivores was discovered

Lions in the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. Photo: shutterstock

super hunters

An illustration comparing a modern man (on the right) with an ancient man (next to him, reminiscent of a monkey), next to an ancient crocodile - the larger of the two and a Yaor crocodile. Illustration: Chris Brochu, University of Iowa.

The largest crocodile that ever lived could swallow a man

Lionesses prey on zebras. From Wikipedia

the smell of predators

Eretz Israeli deer in the Cedar Valley in Jerusalem. Credit nadavnka from Wikipedia

About Gazelles and authorities who are even more scared of them

Comb leg spider

Evil spiders are actually very good mothers

Tourists on safari in Kenya. From Wikipedia

"Memories" from Kenya

A pile of mongooses

Synchronized birthday to all mongooses

Drosera_capillaris - Drosera_capillaris

Competition for food from an unexpected direction

A giant panda in a zoo in China. Photo: from Wikipedia

Protection from predators

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Super-predators… are missing