Researchers believe they’ve found a way to stop those pesky seagulls from snatching your food: by shouting at them.

The researchers wanted to know if a man’s voice was enough to deter the notorious snack thieves in seaside towns. It turns out the answer is yes, but more so if it’s shouting.

How to stop seagulls from stealing your food

What they're saying:

"Talking might stop them in their tracks, but shouting is more effective at making them fly away," Neeltje Boogert, of the University of Exeter's Center for Ecology and Conservation at the Cornwall campus, told The Associated Press.

"Normally when someone is shouting, it’s scary because it’s a loud noise, but in this case all the noises were the same volume, and it was just the way the words were being said that was different," Booge

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