City birds fear women more than men, leaving scientists baffled as to why

Birds living in cities perceive women as more threatening than men, new research has revealed. The study, published in People and Nature, found that male participants could get within 7.5 metres of urban birds before the birds flew away, a full metre closer than their female counterparts. This outcome defied the researchers' predictions entirely. They had anticipated that birds would show greater wariness towards men, reasoning that avian species might have evolved responses to ancient human beh