As the world has slowed down to stave off the spread of COVID-19, stories of wild animals tromping into now-quiet city streets have gone viral online. Some of these turned out to be completely made-up, including the dolphins supposedly swimming through Venice canals or the elephants getting drunk on corn wine in a Chinese farming village. But there are also plenty of very real sightings of animals you might not expect in the urban jungle.
But it’s hard to know to what extent the sightings are the result of animals expanding their territories versus us paying more attention.
In those cases, additional sightings might be due to simple behavior changes. But a less charismatic creature may be also on the rise due to an increased human presence at home. Niamh Quinn, a human-wildlife interactions advisor with the University of California, thinks that rat populations may be increasingand elsewhere. That’s because people are cooking, storing, and disposing of at home, drawing rats away from closed restaurants and toward residences.
Lambert thinks the trend is part us observing more, part changes to animal behavior. “Certainly, animals are out and about more than they might otherwise be, and this is especially true with mammals,” she says. But she adds that people are also slowing down and paying more attention now.
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