Big cats and birds, even insects, guard their territories rather ferociously, sometimes at the risk of their own lives ...

Animals across the natural world rely on a limited number of combat strategies when facing rivals or threats. Researchers have identified four primary combat styles that appear repeatedly across ...

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

In nature, interactions between various species usually lead to interest, and the most fascinating rivalry is between the king cobra and the peacock. The two animals are symbols in themselves, with ...