In the late 1990s, a Yale ecologist named Oswald Schmitz and his students made an interesting discovery by gluing spiders’ mouths shut. Schmitz’s team placed the glued spiders in enclosed fields alongside grasshoppers, and observed how both behaved over time. What they found was even when the spiders were rendered toothless, their presence still changed … Continue reading Spying on fear in the wild: Q&A with ecologist Meredith Palmer