Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: When an animal faces a threat, both behavioral and physiological changes occur that promote the avoidance of the menace. Individuals in the surroundings of the fearful animal (both con and heterospecifics) may detect some of these changes, that become cues that signal an impending danger. The detection of such cues can therefore trigger defense behaviors in observers, in a phenomenon called Social Transmission of Fear.(...)
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2607320878