Fear Signals from Predators

Fear Signals from Predators - Mice exhibit fear behavior towards predators, or simply predator odors, even without prior exposure to these predators. Watch and listen as Lisa Stowers and Fabio Papes take you on a brief, personally guided tour of their discovery that these innate fear responses are mediated by pheromone-like proteins emitted by the predators and detected by the mouse vomeronasal organ.