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Source (paywall): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/city-birds-appear-more-afraid-of-women-than-men-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why/

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>European Great Tits and 36 other bird species on the continent are more afraid of women than they are of men, according to a recent study—and researchers have no idea why. In the study, men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures. That suggests birds may be able to suss out the sex of a human, though the researchers aren’t sure how.

Source (paywall): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/city-birds-appear-more-afraid-of-women-than-men-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why/ From the post: >>European Great Tits and 36 other bird species on the continent are more afraid of women than they are of men, according to a recent study—and researchers have no idea why. In the study, men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures. That suggests birds may be able to suss out the sex of a human, though the researchers aren’t sure how.
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>European Great Tits

PICS OR GTFO

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Here's a pair of great tits for you - courtesy of last month's issue of Playbird Magazine.

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@stupidbird - any insights here? Is this a new thing because women keep trying to make birds switch genders? That’d be my guess.

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Women be nuts.

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I thought birds loved nuts

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Peanuts, walnuts, pecans...sure. Who doesn't?

Liberal nuts? No thank you, sir.

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What if the birds can smell pheromones tainted by SSRIs?

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This... is a possibility that maybe should be studied.

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Perhaps birds can sense mental illness?

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They're just very perceptive birds...

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Well. Women in Cities are far more likely to be liberal and insufferable and probably violently protective of their "food" because "muh fat".

Men in cities are probably far more likely (in this day and age) to toss a little food to some birds because empath and such.
"Modern city women" are for the most part, toxic and horrid.

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City women are something completely different I tell ya.

-- a bird probably

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Edgar Allan Poe write about a bird that wouldn't stop bothering him in a poem, once.

It was titled

I know why the caged bird sings

And he wrote it as a collaboration with Maya Angelou, to advertise her new cruelty-free fried chicken restaurant