Urban birds in a new study let men get about a metre closer than women before flying away, and the mystery is not the distance itself but what the birds are seeing in people that people do not see in themselves

A recent paper reports that urban birds in five European countries allowed men to approach roughly a metre nearer than women before taking flight. The finding held across 37 species and did not change with the height of the person, what they wore, or how they approached. The detail that makes the study worth reading [...] The post Urban birds in a new study let men get about a metre closer than women before flying away, and the mystery is not the distance itself but what the birds are seeing in