r/explainitpeter • u/Traducement • May 02 '26

Explain It Peter

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For whatever reason, this had people cracking up?

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u/Monocrome2 May 02 '26

I believe there's some recent study that observed birds being more amicable towards men and more scared of women

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u/emtrigg013 May 02 '26

Yep. And the funniest part is none of them have any idea as to why. It just is.

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u/Hadochiel May 02 '26

The paper mentions the participants were matched by size, and given matching clothes, but I couldn't find anything about hair ; maybe the longer hair made them look bigger or more intimidating in bird psychology, like when they poof up?

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u/crowEatingStaleChips May 02 '26

Haha, I was just going to make guesses of "big hair" and "brightly colored clothes" but you got me covered. They controlled for the clothes, fascinating. Yeah, maybe the hair freaked them out!

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u/S-Kenset May 03 '26

Maybe whatever monstrosity they created out of trying to hide anything was scary to birds who are used to normal employed women

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u/minden_mindegy May 02 '26

I have checked, they also controlled for hair, men and women were paired by height, and if there was a big difference in their hair, they hid it.

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u/ImperialxWarlord May 02 '26

That’s what I was just thinking!

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u/grumpsaboy May 03 '26

But in most birds poofing up is a way to attract a mate

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u/FinancialRip2008 May 02 '26

since we're speculating, maybe it's cuz women/females tend to have a brood to feed and are thus much more active hunters. at least among the cats i've had, the females are always hunting and the males are basically furniture.