I grew up in a coastal town. My advice, don’t act afraid. Easier said than done I know when you’re not used to being around them but they pick up on fear and normally won’t attack if you’re not bothered. If you have food though you might need to shout or wave your arms
Most of all NEVER feed them or let them get access to your trash and shame those who do. Sounds ridiculous but they’re smart and have good memories. People who feed them are idiots who are causing a nuisance. No joke I once saw a seagull knocking on the door of a house on my street with another one looking through the window like a pair of mobsters. Then when I got home my car was covered in bird shit.
I love watching tourists carry food.
There’s one particular seagull that has a bad leg (mangled from fishing line) that hangs out outside of a coffee shop I frequent. He’s very polite, so I give him nibbles. His cousins can fuck right off, though. I’ll fight every last one of them lol.
So, craving for power is a natural trait in nature. And standing up to bullying animals works just as well.
Seeing where the world is heading now, I kinda think we are cursed by nature with craving for power.
I said, “Seagulls…mmgh! Stop it now!”
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They couldn’t find female voices as well?
When designing a study researchers limit the method to include only the factors that they think are most likely to find a signal out of the noise, and if a positive result is found then they will do further studies to test additional factors. The factors chosen to include or exclude are by necessity based on previous research results or assumptions based on available evidence.
So i would guess that when the researchers were designing this study they chose to only include male voices because of previous research or assumptions that seagulls would’ve had more experiences of hostility from human men than women, or maybe based on males of most species generally being the more aggressive of the sexes, or something else like that.
If you read the study paper itself (which i haven’t done) i would bet they explain their exact reasoning
We used male voices in our experiment as most wildlife crimes against gulls reported in the media are committed by men. Although we did not test this, it seems likely that gulls are more wary of men’s voices compared to women’s voices – as found in nestling jackdaws as well as in African elephants. Men are more likely to represent a threat to these animals than women or children.
I feel like it wouldn’t have been that much more effort to get female voices as well, as they were using recordings anyways. Could also help add support to the referenced paper as well.
But that’s exactly what i explained above, and which is also explained in your pull quote. It’s not that also using women’s voices would’ve been harder, it’s that doing so would’ve been a worse study design. A good study narrows down factors to as few as possible.
Birds aren’t real.
Seagulls are the most social anxious bird you’ll ever watch. They’re not used to being seen by people
If you have food, no they fucking won’t. Even if you chase after one, 12 of them are using that opportunity to steal your Doritos and scatter them across the sand.
Food and silence = 100% of seaguls harass you Food and screaming = some seagulls will leave you alone but never all
You definitely won’t regret provoking a seagull.
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