“Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans“, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. That study was published in the journal Human Nature (vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.)
Twenty-three years later, a Reuters video news report inspired the possibly-related question “Do Humans prefer beautiful chickens?”
The Reuters report begins:
Libya holds first-ever beauty pageant for chickens
February 15, 2025
In the Libyan capital, colorful chickens strut their feathers as they compete in the country’s first chicken beauty pageant….