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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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This week in science: hawks hunting, infrared contacts and immunity through the day
Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy, contacts that allow wearers to see ...
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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 ...
"Impressive intelligence": hawk is helped by traffic light signal when hunting
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 ...
Street smarts: Cooper's hawk uses pedestrian crossing signal to ambush urban prey
A University of Tennessee researcher documented an immature Cooper's hawk using vehicle traffic and pedestrian signal ...
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Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey
A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as cues to time ...
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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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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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 ...