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

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published ...

A University of Tennessee researcher documented an immature Cooper's hawk using vehicle traffic and pedestrian signal ...

The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes ...

A recent study documents a young Cooper’s hawk learning to use pedestrian crossing signals and idling traffic as cover for ambush hunting.

The Cooper’s hawk Dinets spotted on his commute was, in that sense at least, not unusual. But it was the particular technique ...

One winter morning in suburban New Jersey, Vladimir Dinets stopped at a red light — and saw something he couldn’t believe.

A young Cooper’s hawk used traffic signals and parked cars to outwit its prey, revealing surprising intelligence in urban ...

Because Cooper’s hawks are migratory, he noted, this meant the juvenile hawk had figured out this hunting hack just a few weeks into its time in the new city, “and it had already figured out ...

Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy ... I've read all about this young Cooper's hawk in New Jersey. Set the scene for us.

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