Monkeys, like humans, have an in-built ability to spot snakes ultra-fast, and new research suggests scales are a key visual ...

It's the year of the snake in the Chinese zodiac, and in an era when cuteness reigns supreme, a workshop in eastern China is ...

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 ...

A professional snake catcher removed the eastern brown snake from a vehicle in Brisbane, Australia Universal Images Group via Getty Stock Photos A man in Australia doing post-holiday shopping ...

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 ...