In movies, stories and even in survival tv shows they tell you that a fire protects you from attacks of predators during the night. Why and how does it work?

Question

Are there exceptions?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Yeah, Crabs will (apparently) happily run into a fire zero f*** given.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/19doqxt/selfcooking_crab/](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/19doqxt/selfcooking_crab/)