[TN-Bird] Birds Can Tell If You Are Watching Them -- Because They Are Watching You

From: "LeGrand Family" <elegrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 08:14:43 -0500

This link to Science Daily probably doesn't surprise us much. The link has 
another link to a study with jackdaws, which have a dark pupil and a white 
iris, and their response to gaze. 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080430075912.htm
"Predators tend to look at their prey when they attack, so direct eye-gaze can 
predict imminent danger. Julia Carter, a PhD student at the University of 
Bristol, and her colleagues, set up experiments that showed starlings will keep 
away from their food dish if a human is looking at it. However, if the person 
is just as close, but their eyes are turned away, the birds resumed feeding 
earlier and consumed more food overall."
Ed LeGrand

Cumberland Co.



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