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A Young Cooper's Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds
Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young ...
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New Jersey Hawk Adapts to the Modern World, Uses Hunting Strategy With Traffic Lights to Catch Its Prey
New Jersey Hawk Adapts to the Modern World, Uses Hunting Strategy With Traffic Lights to Catch Its Prey Living beings existed ...
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Young hawk uses city traffic to sneak up on its prey
A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
"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 ...
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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Why did a hawk in New Jersey learn traffic signals?
A hawk in New Jersey learned to navigate the signals at an intersection in order to ambush its prey. Zoologist Vladimir ...