As snow settles on the ground and temperatures drop, it’s easy to think most animals are doing what plenty of people do—curling up somewhere warm and waiting out the freeze.

Yup, sometimes humans can be reckless, to say the least, and provoke wild animals to attack us. But wild animals don’t always wait for us to make the first move. Some animals are so territorial or bad ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Drought is a slow-moving catastrophe for most animals. Yet ...