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

Most animals are opportunistic feeders and eat whatever they can to survive. While some animals have adapted to eat nuts, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The next morning, their leftover crumbs would attract sparrows, doves and starlings—birds that Cooper’s hawks like to hunt and eat. “The hawk understood the connection between the ...

“I think my observations show that Cooper’s hawks manage to survive and thrive there, at least in part, by being very smart,” Dinets said. Banner photo of a Cooper’s hawk eating a morning dove, ...

A hawk in a New Jersey town has learned to use a neighborhood street light to hunt more effectively, a new study has found. The study published on Thursday in Fronters of Ethology ...

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