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Dread is vanishing from the animal world. Here’s why that’s a bad thing.
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Dread is vanishing from the animal world. Here’s why that’s a bad thing.

March 5, 2016July 7, 2020

A Raincoast researcher and his university collaborators document how raccoons respond to the threatening sounds of large carnivores, and how this “landscape of fear” affects the health of ecosystems.

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Research: Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade
Scientific Literature

Research: Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

March 2, 2016July 9, 2020

Raincoast PhD candidate, Justin Suraci and colleagues publish study from BC’s Gulf Islands on the role of fear in maintaining healthy ecosystems.

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How top predators enforce balance in the ecosystem
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How top predators enforce balance in the ecosystem

February 26, 2016June 30, 2020

The fear that top predators such as cougars, wolves and other large carnivores inspire in other animals cascades down the food chain and is critical to maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

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Fear itself can help restore ecosystems
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Fear itself can help restore ecosystems

February 23, 2016July 14, 2020

A new study by Raincoast scientists and collaborators demonstrates that the fear top predators inspire can have cascading effects down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems.

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Predators in the Gulf Islands
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Predators in the Gulf Islands

October 2, 2012August 3, 2022

Seaside Times, October 2012

By Chris Genovali

Healthy ecosystems require a full suite of species distributed across a hierarchy of levels on the food chain. If a link is removed, changes in the numbers and types of species will follow…

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