Animals Lose Their Fear Of Predators Once They Have Come Into Contact With Humans
(World News Science)

As humankind`s destructive impact on the rest of the animal kingdom becomes ever clearer, a new study suggests that we may be inadvertently damaging our furry, feathered, and fishy friends even when we are trying to help them. Appearing in the journal PLOS Biology, the paper indicates that wild animals quickly lose their ability to sniff out and avoid predators once they have come into contact with people. The researchers collected 173 previous studies into the antipredator traits of 102 different animal species living in domesticated, captive, and urbanized...