Fear Signals from Predators

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Uploaded by on Apr 27, 2010

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.

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