'Great tits on TV': Newsweek scores the clickbait headline of the day

The “great tit” is a bird, but if you didn’t know that, this headline might be a little confusing to you:

Great tits on TV teach birds which gross bugs to avoid https://t.co/yC73QCcg1i pic.twitter.com/BTnW7pzWLU

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 19, 2017

But actually, the headline above is misleading as the article is about an experiment where “great tits” watch a video of other “great tits” eating bugs and are thus able to learn about which bugs are good to eat and which are not:

Researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Zoology recently published a study on the ability of great tits to learn by watching videos of other great tits expressing disgust after eating prey that looked “conspicuous.” They published the paper in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Mission accomplished, Newsweek:

I will read to you, this article about great tits.. https://t.co/2UTx5rub0R

— n0tmIb (@fyishitfry) December 19, 2017

But the headline did give us — and others — quite a laugh:

I don’t know what to do with this headline. https://t.co/2cD7A8DdyM

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) December 19, 2017

? https://t.co/yHdaWoWQZm

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) December 19, 2017

https://twitter.com/Vengenz421/status/943108682027601921

https://twitter.com/soyouknowwme/status/943100554015858690

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