Dieser einfache Trick könnte Möwen davon abhalten, Ihr Mittagessen zu klauen. Forscher haben herausgefunden, dass Kulleraugen manchmal zu den größten Ängsten einer Möwe gehören.
https://gizmodo.com/this-ridiculously-simple-trick-might-stop-gulls-from-nabbing-your-lunch-2000742276
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>Few things can ruin a fun beach or park outing as quickly as a gull with a hankering for your lunch. But a recent study might have just uncovered a nifty trick that can keep these feathery thieves at bay.
>Researchers in the UK studied how European herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in the city reacted to various types of takeout boxes. The gulls were substantially less likely to approach or peck at boxes that had googly eyes attached to them, they found. Though not every bird was deterred, the simple design strategy could help ease human-gull conflict, the researchers say.
>“Identifying and exploiting pre-existing sensory biases of animals remains an important area of research for animal deterrents,” they wrote in their paper, published last month in the [journal](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73202) Ecology and Evolution.
>Scary eyes
>Eyes and eye contact are known to spook away many predatory or scavenging animals, birds included. Some prey animals have even evolved to incorporate eye-like patterns in their appearance to ward off would-be snackers, such as various species of butterflies.
Seagulls hate this one simple trick
Hurray! My wife got tired of me putting googly eyes everywhere on my walk and took them away.
I’m going test if it works on flies if she gives them back
Robert Pattinson’s face also worked, but the licensing costs were too high
Is this just a temporary respite until the gulls get used to the googly eyes, or is it a more permanent solution?
Do they need to be humanoid? i.e. a pair of eyes facing the same direction (versus on the side like horses’ or birds’ eyes)? What about multiple eyes like a beholder or shoggoth?