This falcon discovered traffic lights to maintain their prey

Birds are still amazing. Western can use tools and Hold grudges against certain people. It can Learn themselves in mirrors. Now, hawks use traffic lights to search for prey, according to Ticket I was published today in the magazine Borders in ethics.

The story begins with Vladimir Dinets, an animal scientist at the University of Tennessee, Noxfel, the author of the study, and an intersection in West Orange, New Jersey, near his home. As the animal world, he has long been interested in animal perspective and understanding animal environments – and the relationship of birds to cars, in particular. Scientists have noticed by Ravens Patrol American Highways waiting for Roadkill and Songberds using cars to hide from predators.

Dinets was looking for these interesting reactions when the young Cooper Falcon migrated to his life and started doing something great.

The intersection books are especially busy, even during the peak hour, Dinets wrote in a guest Editorial to Borders in ethics. But sometimes, one of the pedestrians crosses the street, causing cars to accumulate all the way to a small thick tree below the mass. The “walking” signal is also to make a sound that it has been time to walk.

One morning, Dinets saw the falcon from the tree, flying too low over the car line, crossing the street between cars, then diving to get something near a house.

Then the same happened again. And again.

It turns out that the family who lived in that house near the thick tree liked to have dinner in the front yard. In response, birds – like birds and doves – will flow to the remaining crumbs.

It was made for easy captuities for The Hawk, which was transferred to the annihilation to arrest the aforementioned birds and doves. However, it is strange that the hawks not only did it when cars are lined up along the mass along the way to the tree.

In the end, Dinets discovered that the car line provided a cover for The Hawk, and that the hawks may learn to recognize the sound of the “Walk” infantry. Once the pedestrian pressed on the button, the falcon fly from anywhere he was hanging in the thick small tree. Then it is expected that the cars will accumulate before using the car line as a cover to infiltrate its prey.

The hawks have learned, apparently, using the infantry signal as a sign of starting to go home crowded with insulating birds, according to Dinets.

“This means that the falcon understood the relationship between the sound and the long waiting list of the car,” Denitz explained. It seems that the hawks had a good mental map for the neighborhood.

Falcons (or what Dinets believed is the same hook) next year and used the same research strategy. In the end, though, the family moved away and the signal stopped working, so Dinets have not seen any super smart falcons as they hunted near his home since then.

Life is difficult for birds in cities – they should avoid windows, weaves via cars, and deal with noise. But this study shows at least one method they adaptive to urban life.

“I think my notes show that the Cober hawk managed to stay and prosper there, at least partially, by being very smart,” Dinets wrote.