{"id":870,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/staring-at-seagulls-can-prevent-food-theft\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","slug":"staring-at-seagulls-can-prevent-food-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/staring-at-seagulls-can-prevent-food-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Staring at seagulls can prevent food theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-06 13:42:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Staring down a seagull is the best way to prevent it from stealing your food.<BR><br \/>\nGlaring at the seaside pests frightens the birds and means they are less likely to pinch your sandwiches and chips.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Paul Graham, an animal behaviour expert at the University of Sussex, said:  &#8220;Animals that steal are aware of the attention of the individual they are trying to steal from.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If a bird is in the air and you are worried it might attack, then simply staring at that bird and pointing will stop it coming towards you.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe findings back up a previous study by Exeter University which found that herring gulls nabbed food a lot faster if they weren&#8217;t being watched.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers placed a bag of chips on the ground and it took the birds 21 seconds longer to start gobbling them up when people were watching.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-06 13:42:30 Staring down a seagull is the best way to prevent it from stealing your food. Glaring at the seaside pests frightens the birds and means they are less&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}