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A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time ...
A hawk in New Jersey learned to navigate the signals at an intersection in order to ambush its prey. Zoologist Vladimir ...
Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...
According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...
One winter morning in suburban New Jersey, Vladimir Dinets stopped at a red light — and saw something he couldn’t believe.
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 ...
The Cooper’s hawk Dinets spotted on his commute was, in that sense at least, not unusual. But it was the particular technique ...
On weekday mornings, when pedestrians would activate the signal during rush hour, roughly 10 cars would usually be backed up ...
Many of us have seen animals frozen in the headlights, but what about birds using traffic to their advantage? In a recent ...
A Cooper's hawk in Tennessee learned to use pedestrian crossing signals and stopped traffic as a hunting cover.