 british scientists were honoured for research that found ostriches became more amorous with each other when a human was around in fact ostriches eventually started putting the moves on humans this is true of manatees also you don t want to know original message from fork admin URL mailto fork admin URL on behalf of carey sent friday october NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to fork URL subject headline navel gazing wins an ig nobel greetings carey wants you to know about a story on URL personal message ah the ig nobels always worth a read if only they had a cat mood decipherer __ navel gazing wins an ig nobel by jay lindsay br boston october NUMBER NUMBER url URL 