VRINDAVAN, India – Krishna, a skinny 12-year-old, waits near a Hindu temple packed with pilgrims. He hears a yell – that's his cue. He zigzags between motorbikes and honking tuk-tuks, elbows his way ...

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 ...

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 ...