Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy

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• StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I said, “Seagulls…mmgh! Stop it now!”

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• Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow, it’s a real study:
  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0394
  https://theconversation.com/yes-shouting-at-seagulls-actually-works-scientists-confirm-269317

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  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They couldn’t find female voices as well?

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    • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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

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• TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Food and silence = 100% of seaguls harass you Food and screaming = some seagulls will leave you alone but never all

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You definitely won’t regret provoking a seagull.

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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. All else fails then yea definitely shout at them.

  But most of all NEVER feed them or let them get access to your trash and shame those who do. Those people 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 looking for people who’ve fed them. Then when I got home my car was covered in bird shit.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seagulls are the most social anxious bird you’ll ever watch. They’re not used to being seen by people

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Birds aren’t real.

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