Male commuters walk on the wild side

Here's an interesting item from Science Magazine comparing bus-riders living dangerously to strutting peacocks:

Oxford psychologists Robin Dunbar and colleagues observed 1,000 men and women waiting for the bus over a three month time period. Their more pedestrian conclusion was that men were more likely to cut it close with respect to catching the bus, often arriving at the bus stop at the absolute last moment before departure.

More dramatic, however, was the jaywalking behavior of the bus-riding men. When observed by women, the scoff-laws were much more likely to make risky dashes through traffic on their way to the stop. The article doesn't say whether or not near death by squashing ruffled the riders' feathers, but the investigators did compare the feats to mating displays.