Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
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Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#2They know...
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#3They know...
do they? if there's some insinuation here I'm not understanding it.
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#4I'm wondering if there is some other variable in here. Is it clothing or hair length? Would men with long hair be more intimidating than women with short hair for example? How about certain types of clothing or footwear. Very odd.
The seagulls near me can recognise school children. They know they are more likely to pick up dropped food.
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#5I wonder if this is due to relative vigilance of men and women. This study observed that women tend to scan their environment much more than men: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/study-visually-captures-hard-...
I’ve observed that animals are pretty good at reading body language and can tell when they’re actually being seen by, rather than just sharing space with, a human.
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#6I'm wondering if there is some other variable in here. Is it clothing or hair length? Would men with long hair be more intimidating than women with short hair for example? How about certain types of clothing or footwear. Very odd. The seagulls near me can recognise school children. They know they are more likely to pick up dropped food.
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Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#7I wonder if this is due to relative vigilance of men and women. This study observed that women tend to scan their environment much more than men: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/study-visually-captures-hard-... I’ve observed that animals are pretty good at reading body language and can tell when they’re actually being seen by, rather than just sharing space with, a human.
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Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#8I'm wondering if there is some other variable in here. Is it clothing or hair length? Would men with long hair be more intimidating than women with short hair for example? How about certain types of clothing or footwear. Very odd. The seagulls near me can recognise school children. They know they are more likely to pick up dropped food.
They did control for obvious appearance differences (e.g. color & type of clothing, hair length) and morphology (e.g. height/body size), even people's approach. But not more subtle traits such as gait, waist-hip ratio, odor...
One hypothesis suggested that in early history, women may have more commonly caught smaller prey (birds) than men did, and this fear could be evolutionarily ingrained.
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#9It’s cats lol.
Re: Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
#10I'm wondering if there is some other variable in here. Is it clothing or hair length? Would men with long hair be more intimidating than women with short hair for example? How about certain types of clothing or footwear. Very odd. The seagulls near me can recognise school children. They know they are more likely to pick up dropped food.
They did control for obvious appearance differences (e.g. color & type of clothing, hair length) and morphology (e.g. height/body size), even people's approach. But not more subtle traits such as gait, waist-hip ratio, odor... One hypothesis suggested that in early history, women may have more commonly caught smaller prey (birds) than men did, and this fear could be evolutionarily ingrained.
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