The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...

A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research published ...

NEW YORK — A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research ...

The Xudum Pride mothers must make a kill to feed their young lion cubs. The Xudum Pride mothers must make a kill to feed their young lion cubs. Slowly, they spread out in the tall grass to stalk a ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s Science Quickly. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: Why did the lion take down a buffalo instead of a zebra? Because of the big-headed ants! I know, I know. Sounds ...

Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosystem in East Africa, illustrating the complex web of interactions among ants, trees, lions, zebras and ...

The 12 lions at Lion Country Safari have never seen an antelope or wildebeest, but, much like house cats, they still like to chase things. That makes them the ideal centerpiece of a new study by ...

How did the ant steal the lion’s dinner? This isn’t the beginning of one of Aesop’s Fables. It’s the finding of a new study showing how the disruption of one tiny mutual relationship on the African ...

Earlier this year, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a Nairobi, Kenya-based wildlife sanctuary, rescued an orphaned zebra. The zebra, ...