Strange Ways Animals Adapt to the Human-Built Environment

The Crux
By Katharine Gammon
Feb 23, 2019 6:00 PMMay 21, 2019 6:04 PM
squirrel on a power line
Some animals use human development to travel. Others find shelter in it. (Credit: Stephane Bidouze)

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(Inside Science) — In 2012 and 2013, Bill Bateman, a zoologist based in Perth, Australia, began to notice something interesting about how animals were navigating the bush: When mining companies created small paths through the previously tangled environment to install seismic lines, animals started preferentially using those trails to move from one place to another.

And animal ingenuity wasn’t confined to walking on beaten paths.

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