Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia
I took a basic falconry lesson with my dad last year. Besides being one of the coolest things I did all year, I got to learn all about the species we worked with: the Harris hawk. Native to the Southwest region of North America, they are of the only (the only?) raptors that strategize together and hunt in packs. Apparently if you introduce two groups who have never interacted before, they will play games and talk to each other for a while, and just a couple hours later go out hunting together (with their human trainers).<p>Also, according to our two instructors, the &quot;universal&quot; (read: they witnessed two Harris hawks do this independently) call for a dog or wolf, their natural predator, sounds like &quot;<i>Dog!</i>&quot;