Can seagulls really go berserk and attack schoolchildren? That turned into one of my childhood fears after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” The movie was on TV about once a year when I was a kid growing up on the Jersey shore, where there were a lot of seagulls.
Tonight, Biologist Theodore Stankowich will answer that question at a Science on Screen event. The series only runs through the academic year. So if you don’t get to this showing, you’ll have to wait until the fall for your next chance.
…Stankowich speaks before the film about mobbing and other forms of animal defensive behavior. Dr. Stankowich studies how animals perceive, assess, and respond to potential threats in their environment.
7:30 @ Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA. 02446
Also check out our Q&A with Elizabeth Taylor-Mead, the associate director of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and the curator of CCT’s Science on Screen series.
And, watch your lunch at Crane Beach. A gull once swept down and grabbed a sanwich out of my husband’s hand. Thankfully, it was after the sandwich, not the hand.