Tag: humans

It’s easy to figure that wildlife in busy national parks may be impacted by the heavy tourism there. But what about in parks that have much fewer visitors? The National...

Around Jackson Hole, Wyoming, people are changing the ways wolves prey on elk, sometimes acting as a shield for the prey against their predators. Ungulates, like elk, in the area...

People who live off the land, such as hunter-gatherers or foraging humans, tend to behave similarly to their wildlife counterparts when it comes to foraging, reproduction and even social interaction,...

Whether animals are domesticated, kept in captivity or urbanized, they all lose their fear of humans, which may have implications for their conservation, researchers found. “We knew overall that interactions...

By looking at foxes’ diets over the years, researchers determined that human activity has influenced the small carnivores as far back as 42,000 years ago. Foxes typically feed on scraps...

Some 57 million households in the United States have birdfeeders. The food can benefit the birds, but what effect do birdfeeders have on the people who hang them, fill them...

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington last Sunday, a group of cross-disciplinary scientists from the Santa Fe Institute presented their investigations...

Mammals are becoming more active during the night, researchers found. The reason? Humans. A study published in Science found that settlement, hunting or recreational activity have caused animal activity during...