It’s a Predator-Eat-Prey World

Living on Earth

We tend to overlook the behavioral issues surrounding the question ‘what’s for dinner?’ That’s according to Yale ecologist Oswald Schmitz who tells host Steve Curwood that the actions of predators  ? and their prey  ? affect not only each other but their surrounding ecosystems.

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