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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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
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 ...
IFLScience on MSN10d
Clever Hawk Spotted Using Pedestrian Crossing To Catch Prey In New Jersey
The human species was born with a single goal in our collective mind: to tame the natural world, and exploit it for our own ...
ScienceAlert on MSN11d
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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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 ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN11d
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 ...
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The village under siege by dive-bombing hawk that only targets tall men: At least 12 people are injured after bird of prey starts swooping on unsuspecting victims
A South American bird of prey has been divebombing people in ... The last time I did it [catch a domesticated hawk] it had been eating someone’s pheasants. Trying to catch a bird is hard.