Life as a fearful snail: navigating a world of multiple dangers

This blog post is provided by Janice L. Yan and Richard Szeligowski and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Fear generalization, cross-sensitization and behavioural responses to multiple dangers in a freshwater snail”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Yan, Szeligowski and colleagues test generalised fear responses in a species of freshwater snail, exploring how sensitivity to disparate threats may … Continue reading Life as a fearful snail: navigating a world of multiple dangers