The research, published in Urban Naturalist, examined vertebrate species inhabiting Florida’s stormwater sewer systems.Specifically, the team focused on Alachua County. Using camera traps in 39 ...

If you live in an urban environment, it might seem like the animals you see every day—birds, bugs, squirrels—have adapted perfectly fine to city life. The team combed through years of iNaturalist data ...

Sure, there are imitators, but there's only one Punxsutawney Phil. The famous groundhog "lives" in a tree stump, Gobbler's ...

Exotic animals in L.A.’s urban jungle. 1 / 5. ... There are also famous photos of actress Tippi Hedren and her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, hanging out poolside with their pet lion, Neil.

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City animals also are more social, traveling in pairs more often than their rural, more territorial counterparts—suggesting that urban raccoons are adapting their behavior to city life.

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

By studying animals in urban habitats, we’re learning not just about them, but also about us, and how our worlds affect one another. The zoo is working with nearly 50 cities across the world to ...

The urban raccoons [in the video] smelled the bottom of the can, and then they immediately went to the top off the can to pry it open. What does this tell us about the behavior of other animals we ...

On top of that, the sheer amount of people on the planet just keeps growing. Right now, ... It's way more common for urban animals to be a nuisance or viewed as a pest.

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