Lion Research

Research at the University of Minnesota Lion Lab covers a broad range of topics, from cave paintings documenting the existence of Panthera atrox some 35,000 years ago, to managing human-lion conflict and the evolution of group living amongst lions.

Features research: Predator-prey interactions

Meredith Palmer employs a combination of empirical, experimental, and theoretical approaches to explore how prey ungulates in African large mammal communities utilize a suite of antipredator behaviors to counter a risk-resource tradeoff across a gradient of time and space. Continue

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