Monkeys detect snakes rapidly due to their scales. New experiments demonstrated that primates react strongly to snake-like ...

Humans and monkeys may have evolved their keen ability to detect snakes due to a fear response triggered by the reptiles' scales, rather than their elongated bodies, according to research from ...

“The monkeys did not react faster to salamanders, a species that shares a similar elongated body and tail ... system to identify scales, which are characteristic of snakes,” he continued.

a species that shares a similar elongated body and tail with snakes, until the images were changed to cover them with snakeskin." This suggests that the monkeys were most threatened by the scales.

From the left, a lizard, a lizard with snake scales on its body, and a snake./Courtesy of Matsushita Reiko Professor Kawai investigated which characteristics of snakes primates fear through ...

(Mainichi/Yosuke Tsuyuki) OSAKA -- Primates, including humans, instinctively fear snakes due to their scales, not their unsettling, slithering movements, Nagoya University cognitive science ...

a species that shares a similar elongated body and tail with snakes, until the images were changed to cover them with snakeskin." This suggests that the monkeys were most threatened by the scales.