Monkeys instinctively avoid snake scales, revealing deep-rooted fear Monkeys demonstrate a strong aversion to unique visual cues, such as scales, due to evolutionary survival instincts.
A snake’s scales are a highly recognizable element of snakeskin and are hard and glossy in an adult snake. But during development, the architecture of snake scales is underlain with a dense network of ...
A researcher has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ...