{"id":22,"date":"2025-05-17T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.factahead.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T17:49:11","slug":"this-is-how-you-get-rid-of-cheeky-gulls-that-come-for-your-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/this-is-how-you-get-rid-of-cheeky-gulls-that-come-for-your-food\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how you get rid of cheeky gulls that come for your food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you go to the park with the kids or to the beach for a day, you probably bring fresh sandwiches for lunch. But as soon as everyone starts eating, you are joined by a few hungry seagulls who also like sandwiches …
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Gulls are generally not afraid of people and will even try to take food right out of your hands.<\/strong> These birds will eat almost everything that is killed or caught by other animals \u2014 or people. Seagulls are true scavengers, and they are just following their instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One study has shown that seagulls will steal your food less quickly if you stare at them for a long time.<\/strong> A test was done a number of times by the researchers, in which a bag of fries was used. The researchers started staring at the gull. Whenever one researcher looked the other way, another would still stare at the seagull. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took the seagulls 21 seconds longer before they started stealing food. Twenty-seven times, it was tested, and each of those 27 times,<\/strong> the seagull would not steal food right away if it was being stared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, it has been proven that seagulls do not feel comfortable if you look at them for a long time. But in some cases, gulls are sometimes too clever <\/strong>for humans, as they have realized that they can come from behind …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the gulls sometimes also work together.<\/strong> One gull knocks the bread from your hands, the other gull then quickly flies away with it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you go to the park with the kids or to the beach for a day, you probably bring fresh sandwiches for lunch. But as soon as everyone starts eating, you are joined by a few hungry seagulls who also like sandwiches … Gulls are generally not afraid of people and will even try to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-and-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facts-ahead.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}