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This study is a great candidate for this year's IgNobel in biology:
Japanese commonly describe a person frozen with fear as looking like “a frog scared stiff by a snake.”
A team of scientists from Kyoto University tested the notion that frogs freeze in place when faced with a snake by staging experiments that pitted the arch enemies against each other.
They found that frogs intentionally stay still at the sight of snakes as a means of escape.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13263159