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Yes, shouting at seagulls actually works, scientists confirm

By Neeltje Boogert, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Exeter

Did you get through your beach picnics unscathed this summer? Or did you return from a swim only to find a “seagull” (most likely a herring gull if in the UK) rifling through your bags in search of food? If the latter, shouting at it should help to stop the gull in its tracks and make it fly off – as my team’s latest research shows.

Our previous experiment, published…

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