Hunter, hunted: when the world catches on fire, how do predators respond?
- Written by Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Some predators, including red foxes, move into burnt areas after fires pass through.Alexandre Roux/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
2019 might well be remembered as the year the world caught fire. Some 2.9 million hectares of eastern Australia have been incinerated in the past few months, an area roughly the same size as Belgium. Fires in the Amazon, the Arctic,...
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