Monkeys, like humans, have an in-built ability to spot snakes ultra-fast, and new research suggests scales are a key visual cue for primates when detecting these slithering threats. Cognitive ...

A 'bizarre' material used by some birds to line their nests in tree cavities could actually save their offspring.

Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes but not to images of salamanders, implying a specific fear of snakes. On the basis of this ...

Lunar New Year is almost upon us, and with it comes the Year of the Snake. In the zodiac, the reptilian animal is believed to ...

the monkeys responded just as quickly to these pictures as they did to pictures of snakes. The scaly skin seemed to be an important visual trigger. The researcher used grayscale images of ...