Ask anyone living in a coastal area of the UK and they'll confirm that seagulls can be a nuisance.
To build on this, my masters students Franziska Feist and Kiera Smith and Iif the birds could not only track objects handled by humans but if they could also compare objects in their environment with those being manipulated by a person.
We then recorded the gulls' response to see if, as hypothesized, they would choose the crisp packet that matched the color of the one in our hand. Around 86 percent of the recorded pecks came from adults, despite these birds making up just 46 percent of our entire sample. That means this behavior cannot have come from an innate ability resulting from co-evolution or an extended period of living alongside humans. Rather, it must be the result of a broader, more general behavioral repertoire.
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