**About the Editor**

**Marcos Mole ´on** is member of the research and teaching staff of the Department of Zoology at the University of Granada (Spain), close to his birthplace. He is a biologist and obtained his PhD on predator–prey interactions in 2007. Since then, his research has mostly focused on the ecology of predation and scavenging, as well as their interface. A major transversal aim of his research is to provide science-based arguments to solve outstanding conservation problems of vulnerable wildlife populations and systems. His main study models are birds of prey and mammalian carnivores, especially in the Mediterranean Basin and the African continent. He is also passionate about human evolution and the present and past relation between our species and megafauna. For more information, you may visit his personal website at http://wpd.ugr.es/mmoleon/.
