Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young ...

Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves ...

Research found that Cooper’s Hawks in New Jersey adapted to the city by using cues from traffic signals and manipulating ...

A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time ...

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 ...

A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...

According to Dinets, goshawks seem to have adopted the same technique after observing them. In South America, several vulture ...

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 ...

A hawk in New Jersey learned to navigate the signals at an intersection in order to ambush its prey. Zoologist Vladimir ...

A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.

A hawk in New Jersey has adapted to city life. It uses traffic signals to hunt birds. The hawk waits for the pedestrian ...