Wild animals in urban areas face unique challenges. They live in environments modified by and for humans without having evolved in these environments, but unlike domesticated animals, they remain under the auspices of natural selection. We do not yet know how living in urban areas will ultimately affect the animals that share our urban environments, but we are at the beginning of a new and important scientific effort to study the effects of urbanization on wildlife. Early signs suggest that animals that can tolerate urbanization are quite different in behavior and physiology than those that are limited in distribution to natural areas.
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Ryan, A. M., & Partan, S. R. (2014). Urban wildlife behavior. In Urban Wildlife Conservation: Theory and Practice (pp. 149–173). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7500-3_9
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