Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale. Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has ...

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 ...

took to Quora to share some images of the well-preserved fossils. Take a look: This discovery underscores the complexity of snake evolution and prompts further study into how these limbless ...

The team then waited another four hours for the snake to make its way down from the tree as they observed its movements on camera. In Pictures takes you this weekend on a visual trip with wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even monkeys and human infants who have never encountered a snake react to pictures of them, demonstrating our innate fear of these creatures. Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys ...