We are hard-wired to flight responses, just as all organisms, at least hypothetically. So, finding this pathway in the brain is another piece to the puzzle. I would not be surprised if they also find the same pathway in brains of unrelated animals like fish and birds.

On this note, the videos that are circulating on dogs howling and birds flying and being noisy just before the earthquakes in Turkey and Siria, it is probably a similar response to fear.