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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 ...
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New Jersey Hawk Adapts to the Modern World, Uses Hunting Strategy With Traffic Lights to Catch Its Prey
Research found that Cooper’s Hawks in New Jersey adapted to the city by using cues from traffic signals and manipulating ...
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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 ...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk.The bird—a young ...
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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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.
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Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, is a zoologist who studies animal behavior ...
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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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Cooper’s hawk waits for red light, outsmarts urban prey
"Next winter, I saw a hawk in adult plumage hunt in exactly the same way, and I'm pretty sure it was the same bird," Dinets said. The Cooper's hawk is known for its short, rounded wings and long tail, ...
How Hawk uses traffic signals to hunt the prey
A hawk in New Jersey has adapted to city life. It uses traffic signals to hunt birds. The hawk waits for the pedestrian ...
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Finch: Bird feeder could produce meal for hawk
Q. Why would a Cooper’s hawk be hunting on the ground around a bird feeder? Would she expect to find a sparrow or small ...
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The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first ...