Research publishing October 5 in the journal Current Biology finds that mammals living in South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park, home to one of the world's largest remaining lion populations, are far more afraid of hearing human voices than lion vocalizations or hunting sounds such as dogs barking or gunshots. Recent global surveys show that humans kill prey at much higher rates than other predators. "We usually think about the top of the food chain being large carnivore predators," says first author Liana Y.

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