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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Colemans Left Hook on May 26, 2023, 12:02:34 am
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as one thread closes so another opens
Timing is everything in life and I couldn't believe what i heard on the radio today. The research was published on Wednesday
Their heading was "The Science of Chip Theft" not pin and chip
anyhow I am saying nuffing -- no it isn't April 1st
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/newsandevents?id=61042
also
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0035
On the Radio they mentioned a student sat on Brighton sea-front for two years watching two bags of chips
"Using colour to test the stimulus enhancement theory, the researchers positioned one blue crisp packet and one green crisp packet in the immediate vicinity of both individual and groups of herring gulls along Brighton’s seafront. Nearby, a human experimenter ate from a blue or green crisp packet. The researchers found that the gulls would turn their heads to watch the experimenter and, in most cases, then pecked at the matching crisp packet to attempt to find food. "
Update
Eagles can be even more dangerous than herring gulls
Just a warning to our folically challenged members - as we all know
According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus met a tragic death: one day, an eagle that had just caught a tortoise mistook Aeschylus's bald head for a shiny rock, and accidentally killed the author by dropping the animal onto him.
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as one thread closes so another opens
Timing is everything in life and I couldn't believe what i heard on the radio today. The research was published on Wednesday
Their heading was "The Science of Chip Theft" not pin and chip
anyhow I am saying nuffing -- no it isn't April 1st
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/newsandevents?id=61042
also
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0035
On the Radio they mentioned a student sat on Brighton sea-front for two years watching two bags of chips
"Using colour to test the stimulus enhancement theory, the researchers positioned one blue crisp packet and one green crisp packet in the immediate vicinity of both individual and groups of herring gulls along Brighton’s seafront. Nearby, a human experimenter ate from a blue or green crisp packet. The researchers found that the gulls would turn their heads to watch the experimenter and, in most cases, then pecked at the matching crisp packet to attempt to find food. "
Update
Eagles can be even more dangerous than herring gulls
Just a warning to our folically challenged members - as we all know
According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus met a tragic death: one day, an eagle that had just caught a tortoise mistook Aeschylus's bald head for a shiny rock, and accidentally killed the author by dropping the animal onto him.
To be fair, his head does look rock like in that photo.