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Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey
In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...
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Bird brain - clever New Jersey hawk uses crosswalk signal in hunting strategy
Motor vehicles are among the top five causes of bird death in the United States, killing about 200 million birds in ...
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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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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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Red light, green light, strike: City hawk times its kill with traffic signal beeps
A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.
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Hawk attacking villagers may have to be euthanised
It believed the hawk was eating in the village and warned people ... but said: "Birds of prey aren't actively hostile towards humans, but may attack if provoked or if they feel threatened if ...