“The ant and the zebra” sounds like the title of one of Aesop’s fables. Like all good fables, this one has a moral, which is that tinkering with nature has unpredictable consequences. Unlike the Greek ...

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 ...

The presence of invasive ants in trees indirectly reduced the number of zebras preyed upon by lions, researchers observed in a study at a nature reserve in Kenya. Published in Science, the study noted ...

As a result, the lions changed their hunting strategy and began to eat the slightly slower-moving buffalo in the area. In fact, from 2003 to 2020, the number of zebra kills by lions declined from 67% ...

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 invasion of non-native species can sometimes lead to large and unexpected ecosystem shifts, as Douglas Kamaru and colleagues demonstrate in a unique, careful study that traces the links between ...

In the African country of Kenya, scientists have discovered that big-headed ants are making it harder for lions to hunt zebras.

UW Professor Jake Goheen, left, and Ph.D. student Douglas Kamaru fit a GPS collar on a lioness at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Their research shows that the invasion of big-headed ants at the ...