Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey

Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey

A young hawk in New Jersey turned rush hour traffic into its personal hunting ground. The post Modern Hunter: This Young Hawk Learned To Use Traffic Lights To Find Prey appeared first on Study Finds.

A Hawk in New Jersey Figured Out Traffic Signals and Used Them to Hunt

An urban raptor learns to hunt with help from traffic signals and a mental map.

A sparrow waiting specifically for a traffic light to go hunting? The zoologist and behavioral researcher Vladimir Dinets reports in the specialist journal »Frontiers in Ethology« about this observation. With his clever adaptation to the urban environment, the bird of prey is not alone. Symbol picture: Sparrow with prey Sperber flew just above the pavement Cleverly the young roundtail beard has cleverly crafted this: he knew that every morning d…

A young sparrowhawk in the United States has taught itself to hunt using a traffic light, a new study has found. “Animals always turn out to be smarter than I expect.”