Very few scientific publications and newspaper articles focus on catastrophic events and their effects on urban wildlife
Marlene Walters,
Christina Cen,
Julia Lung
et al.
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life and disrupted human activity in urban centers all over the world. Stay-at-home orders emptied urban spaces, removing or decreasing stressors on urban wildlife associated with human presence. Anecdotal observations of unusual urban wildlife behavior spread virally across social media, but some of these reports were proven false or fabricated. Here we examined both scientific publications and local newspapers to understand how extensively urban catastrophes are covered wi… Show more
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