Our interaction with seagulls may be why they take our chips in the first place
Seagulls hit the news last week when a study conducted by the University of Exeter found that staring at the birds made them less likely to…
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Jason Murugesu
Jason Murugesu is a former Wellcome Scholar at the New Statesman.
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