Thread: Best headline for a dull science story ever
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2008-05-09 , 16:43
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Originally Posted by TheRealBubba View Post
Ummm, "Great tit" is the proper common name for the European equivalent of North America's "Black capped chickadee". Great tits are one of the most commonly studied birds in field based animal behaviour research, thousands of scientific papers have been written about Great tits.
Oh I know, and the Blue Tit is another famous bird in the UK. But still... the way that headline was written does suggest they were trying to make it a bit, erm, eyecatching.

It was on the top of the BBC's "most read pages" chart, which suggests the ploy worked. :-)