{"id":128999,"date":"2019-08-07T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/scientists-suggest-staring-down-seagulls-to-protect-your-snacks-cnet\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T07:30:19","slug":"scientists-suggest-staring-down-seagulls-to-protect-your-snacks-cnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/scientists-suggest-staring-down-seagulls-to-protect-your-snacks-cnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists suggest staring down seagulls to protect your snacks     \u2013 CNET"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>\nThis seagull tried to snatch my shrimp in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>                                                     Amanda Kooser\/CNET                                                 <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A pleasant meal beside a scenic body of water can quickly turn into an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Birds_(film)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred Hitchcock movie<\/a> if you&#039;re not careful. Seagulls are notorious for strolling right up to people and stealing their lunches. But the good news is you might be able to battle this avian crime wave with a simple tool: your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK wanted to know if staring at seagulls might dissuade them from abducting your dinner, so they headed to coastal towns in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p>The team put a bag of chips (that&#039;s fries for us US folks) on the ground and monitored how long it took the gulls to approach the food. &quot;On average, gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach the food with a human staring at them,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-08\/uoe-sas080519.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the university said in a release<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers initially tried to test 74 herring gulls, but most of them weren&#039;t interested in sticking around or stealing food, so only 19 gulls were usable for the study.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Gulls are often seen as aggressive and willing to take food from humans, so it was interesting to find that most wouldn&#039;t even come near during our tests,&quot; said <a href=\"https:\/\/biosciences.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/index.php?web_id=Madeleine_Goumas\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madeleine Goumas<\/a>, lead author of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/datadryad.org\/resource\/doi:10.5061\/dryad.3jf80g4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction<\/a>, published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/journal\/rsbl\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biology Letters<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/scientists-suggest-staring-down-seagulls-to-protect-your-snacks\/#ftag=CAD590a51e\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c-8oqtgrjgwu0x24epgv6x2eedukuvcvkex2eeqo.g00.cnet.com\/g00\/3_c-8yyy.epgv.eqo_\/c-8OQTGRJGWU0x24jvvrux3ax2fx2fepgv6.edukuvcvke.eqox2fhnax2fdwpfngux2fepgveuux2fkocigux2feqtgx2ftgfdcnnx2fnqiq_314.rpix3fk32e.octmx3dkocig_$\/$\/$\/$\/$\/$\/$\/$\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cnet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seagull tried to snatch my shrimp in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p> Amanda Kooser\/CNET <\/p>\n<p>A pleasant meal beside a ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scientists suggest staring down seagulls to protect your snacks   \u2013 CNET - Business News Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This seagull tried to snatch my shrimp in Illinois.  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