Wildlife has existed in urban areas since records began. However, the discipline of urban
ecology is relatively new and one that is undergoing rapid growth. All wildlife in urban areas …

Aim Predators often have important roles in structuring ecosystems via their effects on each
other and on prey populations. However, these effects may be altered in the presence of …

Coyotes (Canis latrans) are highly adaptable, medium-sized carnivores that now inhabit
nearly every large city in the United States and Canada. To help understand how coyotes …

Sustaining wildlife populations, which provide both ecosystem services and disservices,
represents a worldwide conservation challenge. The ecosystem services and Ostrom's …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

Large carnivores can be found in different scenarios of cohabitation with humans.
Behavioral adaptations to minimize risk from humans are expected to be exacerbated where …

1 Department of Biology, Mekelle University, PO Box 3072, Mekelie, Ethiopia; 2 Institute of
Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, PO Box 951 8, Leiden, The Netherlands; 3 …

Rapid and ongoing environmental change is leading to scenarios where marine and
terrestrial predators are persisting without prey, either by scavenging or using anthropogenic …

Context The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) lives in remarkably close proximity to humans
in the degraded and prey-depleted landscapes in Tigray in northern Ethiopia, predominantly …

Theories explain the presence of fears and specific phobias elicited by animals in
contemporary WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations …