Ecology and neurobiology of fear in free-living wildlife

LY Zanette, M Clinchy - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The ecology of fear concerns the population-, community-, and ecosystem-level
consequences of the behavioral interactions between predators and prey, ie, the aggregate …

Animal models of post-traumatic stress disorder: face validity

S Goswami, O Rodríguez-Sierra, M Cascardi… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that develops in a proportion
of individuals following a traumatic event. Despite recent advances, ethical limitations …

Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear

M Clinchy, MJ Sheriff, LY Zanette - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Predator‐induced stress has been used to exemplify the concept of stress for close to a
century because almost everyone can imagine the terror of fleeing for one's life from a lion or …

Reality as the leading cause of stress: rethinking the impact of chronic stress in nature

R Boonstra - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic activation of the stress axis caused by long‐term uncontrollable and unpredictable
factors in the environment has been regarded as causing maladaptive and/or pathological …

Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore

M Clinchy, LY Zanette, D Roberts, JP Suraci… - Behavioral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The fear (perceived predation risk) large carnivores inspire in mesocarnivores can affect
ecosystem structure and function, and loss of the “landscape of fear” large carnivores create …

Biologically meaningful scents: a framework for understanding predator–prey research across disciplines

MH Parsons, R Apfelbach, PB Banks… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fear of predation is a universal motivator. Because predators hunt using stealth and
surprise, there is a widespread ability among prey to assess risk from chemical information …

Olfactory systems and neural circuits that modulate predator odor fear

LK Takahashi - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
When prey animals detect the odor of a predator a constellation of fear-related autonomic,
endocrine, and behavioral responses rapidly occur to facilitate survival. How olfactory …

How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning

MA Lashley, M Acevedo, S Cotner… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic introduced an abrupt change
in human behavior globally. Here, we discuss unique insights the pandemic has provided …

Patterns of predator neophobia: a meta-analytic review

AL Crane, MCO Ferrari - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neophobia, the fear of novel stimuli, plays a major role in animal ecology. Here, we review
studies on predator neophobia and explore its underlying patterns within an ecological …

Stress hypothesis overload: 131 hypotheses exploring the role of stress in tradeoffs, transitions, and health

BN Harris - General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2020 - Elsevier
Stress is ubiquitous and thus, not surprisingly, many hypotheses and models have been
created to better study the role stress plays in life. Stress spans fields and is found in the …