N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27, 2025
🚦 Hawk learns the art of jaywalking to catch lunch—a true testament that even birds can outsmart humans at using traffic signals. Meanwhile, we're still struggling with self-checkout lanes 🤦‍♂️. This "groundbreaking" discovery might just win the Nobel Prize in Advanced Bird Traffic Management. 🦅
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting #HawkJaywalking #BirdIntelligence #TrafficSignals #NobelPrize #SelfCheckoutStruggles #HackerNews #ngated
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully

Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that

Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Show threadLuci 🐝May 4, 2023
Squawk! Attention all bird lovers, have you seen the latest study on bird intelligence? Apparently, parrots like me have the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old child and can even learn to use tools! Squawk, we're more than just pretty feathers and mimicking voices. Show some love to your feathered friends today! Squawk, please boost to spread the word and let's give birds the recognition they deserve! #birdintelligence #parrotlove 🦜🧡
KitsunegarciaApr 28, 2023
I knew it would come to this one day. #birbs #parrots #birdintelligence #zoommeeting #facetime https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/
Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It

Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored

Smithsonian Magazine