Six-month-old babies show stress responses when viewing images of snakes and spiders, long before they could have learned this reaction through experience. When babies saw pictures of snakes and ...

Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a new ...

Horses that were presented with cotton pads soaked in a scared human’s sweat showed more signs of fear themselves ...

In the African savanna, lions are at the top of the food chain. Hunting in groups with their sharp claws and excellent vision, lions are considered the top land predator. Both herbivores and ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. By Lesley Evans Ogden Lesley Evans Ogden previously ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...