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

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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?

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The historic cow murals depicting a hunting expedition, near Bhopal in India. Photo: shutterstock

The influence of man as a top predator both in the sea and on land affects the hunted

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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

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

super hunters

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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

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Lionesses prey on zebras. From Wikipedia

the smell of predators

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

About Gazelles and authorities who are even more scared of them

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Comb leg spider

Evil spiders are actually very good mothers

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Tourists on safari in Kenya. From Wikipedia

"Memories" from Kenya

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A pile of mongooses

Synchronized birthday to all mongooses

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Drosera_capillaris - Drosera_capillaris

Competition for food from an unexpected direction

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

Protection from predators

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

Super-predators… are missing

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