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Birds Are Judging You by Your Outfit
You might be able to quickly recognize a friend from afar based on their body language or their personal fashion choices. It turns out that some birds do the same thing, recognizing familiar, harmless humans by their clothing.
gizmodo.com
Half in jest, but:
John Marzluff, a wildlife scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle also not involved with this research, said the differentiation of groups of humans by their clothes is a new one among birds.
"It's the first time I've heard of this," he said, noting however that there are some "anecdotal observations" of birds "keying in on what people hold, like a gun versus a broom."