Monkeys hunt animals like lizards and snakes when fruit scarce

Males hunted prey more often and went after more dangerous prey such as snakes. The post Monkeys hunt animals like lizards ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When Fruit Is Scarce, These Monkeys Hunt Animals. The Behavior May Offer Clues About the Origins of Humans’ Meat-Eating Habits

The bearded capuchins of northeastern Brazil typically eat plant-based foods, but they turn to small vertebrates when those ...

When fruits and veggies are scarce, monkeys hunt for meat

Capuchin monkeys hunt prey when fruits and vegetables become scarce, potentially mirroring the habits of human ancestors, ...
Ars Technica

Study: Cuttlefish adapt camouflage displays when hunting prey

Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal Ecology, including mimicking benign ocean objects like a ...
Phys.org

Fast prey: Even non-attacking predatory fish benefit from group hunting at high speed

Why do animals actually hunt in groups when they have to share the prey afterwards? Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), in which Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ...
Mongabay

Seeing through the swarm: How hawks hunt bat prey

If you liked this story, share it with other people. How do hawks and raptors hunt prey that flock, school or swarm? A new study suggests that rather than homing in on one animal, they aim toward a ...
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The need to hunt small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities

A new study from the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University found that the extinction of large prey, upon which human nutrition had been based, compelled prehistoric humans to develop ...