Hacker News with Generative AI: Urban Wildlife

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully (frontiersin.org)
A Cooper’s hawk, a medium-sized raptor native to North America, appears to have learned how to adapt its hunting strategy and strike at a flock of birds precisely when cars at an intersection lined up after traffic lights switched to red, having been alerted by a sound signal that the red phase would last longer than usual.
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk's Deadly Attack (theatlantic.com)
A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.
10 Lizards were smuggled into Cincinnati in a sock. Now there are thousands (nationalgeographic.com)
For more than 70 years, thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, from Europe have made Cincinnati their home. Even through record-low temperatures and snowfall, they’ve managed to survive—and multiply. But how did these Mediterranean reptiles gain such a foothold in a Midwestern city? It all started with a 10-year-old boy and a sock full of lizards.
Crows and Magpies Snatch Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests (smithsonianmag.com)
London's history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital (bigissue.com)