Staring at seagulls is the best way to stop them stealing your chips and ice-cream, ecologists have shown. 

Britain’s herring gulls are often viewed as aggressive, and have been photographed snatching rabbits and even pet dogs from the ground.

But experiments by the University of Exeter found that the birds are surprisingly easy to intimidate, and will back off from a meal if they think someone is watching.

Researchers put a bag of chips on the ground in Cornish seaside resort and tested how long it took herring gulls to approach when a human was watching them, compared to when the human looked away.

On average the gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach the food with a human staring at them.

Out of 74 gulls that the researchers attempted to test, just 27 would go anywhere near the food when a human was present, while just 19 completed the ‘looking at’ and ‘looking away’ tests.

 

Now I know where the tax payers money is going ...never mind finding a cancer cure ...glad to see the experts are busy..

So glad to FINALLY have an answer to that question.....😄😄😄

Information we really wanted to know provided by our higher institutions of educations, now we see were all the money for really need to know answers!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Last year a neuroscientist at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine received a federal grant to study how monkeys gamble.  Sure, it seems like a waste of money.  However, they could have recouped some of their investment by selling tickets to watch the study.

 

A bunch of monkeys playing casino games sounds more entertaining to me than 95% of what they show on television these days.

Well aren't pommy seagulls polite, the Aussie fruckers will take the chips right out ya hand while they state into your eyes as if to say "what ya Gunna do about it, huh?"... Never mind the bin chickens.

G’day 

Love feeding bin chickens.

feed em small bits to get them interested.

Then throw something big. They can share can they. They got to fight it out Ha Ha