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Is the fear of snakes in primates inborn or taught?

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Among primates, studies by King (1997) show that 11 genera respond vigorously to snake-sighting in various ways such as alarm calls, mobbing, etc. However, Mineka, Keir, & Price (1980) observed that rhesus and squirrel monkeys reared in the lab were less fearful of snakes than their wild-born counterparts. read more

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Fear of snakes is found in many primate species, meaning that it is tens of millions of years old. Humans have been living on snake-less islands for just tens of thousands of years (at most), an evolutionary blink of an eye. read more

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