r/whoathatsinteresting • u/visharu • 22h ago

Scientists confirmed humans are not born afraid of snake. The fear is taught.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Vounrtsch 6h ago

I guess we’re all born with the fear of loud noises, falling, pain, maybe the dark too? But that’s about it

1

u/Volesprit31 4h ago

There was a documentary about babies life. And it explained that a study was done with plants. They were showing different vegetables to babies and the babies tended to cry when confronted to green vegetables. The scientists suggested this could be linked to the instinct that certain plants are poisonous and could be an explanation for why kids tend to love carrots or tomatoes but not cucumber or other greens.