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

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

The human species was born with a single goal in our collective mind: to tame the natural world, and exploit it for our own ...

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, is a zoologist who studies animal behavior ...

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

It would then wait for cars to pile up before using the line of cars as cover to sneak up on its prey. The hawk had, apparently, learned to use the pedestrian signal as a cue to start heading over ...

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian ... out of said crosswalk—to ambush prey. The crossing signal—a loud ...

and whenever a hawk is in the area, they scatter to the wind. Life is a challenge for all birds, even for bird-eating birds. There are diseases like West Nile Virus, parasites in their prey and ...

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.

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 ...