are you sure you have the story right? (could be a different experiment, though) also, while the baby birds would prefer the non-feeding wooden plank, I kind of doubt they carried on the experiment to starvation. except they preferred what was (iirc) basically a large flat yellow wooden plank with a larger red dot on it. which is about a red dot the parents have on their beaks, and the offspring would peck at it to get food. One thing I remember, for some images (depending on posture, mainly) you actually needed to use a ruler and work out the proportions because at first glance there was nothing wrong with them.Īnd yes, the advertising industry has of course been abusing this behavioural exploit since ever, to the point that I'm pretty sure there's a couple of EU laws against the most egregious types (though partially covered under false advertising of course).
I was taught this in highschool biology? (age 16 or so, that's high school in the US right? I always mix it up)įirst the example of the seagulls, but immediately after that, the teacher showed us a Betty Boop / Jessica Rabbit -like comic book character, clearly demonstrating that, no of course it's not just birds. The subsequent telephone conversations of Benzema and Zenati, intervened by the police, leave the madridista in a bad place, since in them he treated Valbuena as a “fag” and claimed that he had “swallowed” the pressure to which he had been subjected.It's called super-stimuli. Thus they learned that the alleged blackmailers came into contact with Zenati, who, in turn, requested the intervention of Benzema.ĭuring the investigation of the case, the Madridista acknowledged having had that conversation in Clairefontaine, but affirmed that he did so with the sole intention of helping Valbuena, who interpreted it differently, as pressure to make him pay. Instead of accepting the blackmail, the Marseille player went to the police who, from that moment on, began to wiretap telephone conversations. The idea was to inform Marseille of the existence of the video through former player Djibril Cissé and, at the same time, propose Angot’s help to erase it, something that should stimulate the player’s generosity.Īccused of blackmail in the scandal that has Karim Benzema at the center of the scene.īut Valbuena did not react, So they went to another footballer henchman, Younes Houass, who called him on several occasions in June. Together with Mustapha Zouaoui, recognized for providing luxury products to footballers and several times convicted of blackmail, he devised a plan to obtain compensation from Valbuena. The document ended up in Angot’s hand, who kept it in storage until months later he needed to pay off a debt. When he was arrested in 2015, Benzema acknowledged that during the concentration of the French team he had a conversation with Valbuena, but he assured that the sole intention was to help him, although he interpreted it as a form of pressure. Valbuena had not agreed to pay Instead, he had reported the case to the police, who recorded the defendants’ telephone conversations. That file had been obtained in July 2014 by Axel Angot, Known to several players for his computer skills, whom Valbuena, then a Marseille footballer, had asked to rescue the data from a damaged mobile phone. It was about Karim Zenati, Benzema’s childhood friend, who had previously warned the Madrid forward of the existence of a sexual video in which Valbuena and his wife appeared. Justice reproaches him for having acted in favor of the extortionists when on October 6, 2015, during a national team rally in Clairefontaine, he offered his partner the help of an intermediary to get him out of the problem. Since then all attempts by his lawyers failed to remove him from a case in which, according to his own testimony, he only acted of good will to help Valbuena, who was being subjected to blackmail.
Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema, teammates in the French National Team that played in the 2014 World Cup (REUTERS / Charles Platiau / File Photo).