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A Hawk in New Jersey Figured Out Traffic Signals and Used Them to Hunt
One winter morning in suburban New Jersey, Vladimir Dinets stopped at a red light — and saw something he couldn’t believe. A ...
This Hawk Figured Out Traffic Signals to Ambush Its Prey
Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...
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New Jersey Hawk Develops Clever Hunting Strategy Using Traffic Signals
A hawk in New Jersey has been seen using a clever, urban hunting strategy: taking sound cues from traffic signals to exploit ...
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Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey
A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time ...
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Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...
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How a hawk learned to use traffic lights to hunt in the city
According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes ...
Urban hawks may use streetlights to ambush prey, study finds
A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood street light to hunt more effectively, a new study has found. The study published on Thursday in Fronters of Ethology ...
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A Young Cooper’s Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds
Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...
"Impressive intelligence": hawk is helped by traffic light signal when hunting
In one town in the USA, a hawk has taken advantage of complex processes at a road junction to hunt in a way that has never ...
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A street-smart hawk uses a pedestrian signal to hunt in the city
In a recent paper, a researcher noted a bird’s surprising urban adaptation: A young Cooper’s hawk used a pedestrian crossing signal to help it hunt more successfully in a busy neighborhood. Vladimir ...