A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey has learned to decode traffic signals, using the extended red lights triggered by pedestrian crossings as a hunting cue to attack songbirds with military precision. The remarkable behavior, documented by University of Tennessee researcher Vladimir Dinets, represents the most sophisticated use of human traffic patterns ever recorded in … Read more
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