Defensive attacks from cougars are rare, but when they occur, they are almost always the result of misinterpreted threat signals or sudden pressure placed on the animal. Cougars, also called mountain ...

Panic-like behaviour and fear-induced antinociception represent a compelling intersection of neurobiological processes that regulate both the emotional and sensory responses to acute threats. This ...

Bumblebees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...

The language of “fight, flight, or freeze” to describe the body’s instinctive survival responses to perceived threats is commonly understood. But some clinicians and researchers now recognize six ...

Researchers used computational simulations to demonstrate how simple sensing and movement rules—such as detection of distance and speed changes—constrain predator–prey interactions. In a simplified ...