African savannah plants forego thorns where the presence of predators discourages browsing. Plants on the African savannah have outsourced their defence to large carnivores. Dr Adam Ford from the ...

Thorns are among the defences available to plants to stop them being eaten by herbivores The presence of carnivores helps plants without thorny defences thrive, a study of life on the savannah ...

Local herders occasionally prune the bushy, thorny trees for easier climbing and even help goat kids learn to climb. During the bare autumn season, goats spend three quarters of their foraging time ...

It’s full of cactuses – including one thorny plant nearly as tall as my house. That’s not something you see every day in the Pacific Northwest. Cactuses usually live in dry places like deserts.

They removed thorns from a thorny species (Acacia etbacia), and added thorns to a less-thorny species (A. brevispica), and compared how many leaves were eaten by impala from these branches.