While urbanization negatively affects species diversity across North America, it hits critters living in warmer cities with less vegetation the hardest.
This website stores data such as cookies to enable essential site functionality, as well as marketing, personalization, and analytics. By remaining on this website, you indicate your consent.A young coyote is seen beneath a passing CTA train at a North Side cemetery on Sept. 27, 2023, in Chicago.in May, frolicking through Millennium Park and grooming each other on a concrete slab, Seth Magle said it was an exciting development for a species that is becoming increasingly rare in the Chicago area.
However, Chicago is cooler, more humid and has more vegetation compared with other cities like Phoenix, helping mitigate some of the effects of urbanization. While climate change isn’t good for wildlife anywhere, Magle said Chicago is relatively well positioned to cope with it. He said there’s a variety of potential explanations for the decline, from habitat destruction to an increase in coyote populations. Coyotes are known toor even prey upon them. Unlike gray foxes, Schauber said red foxes are more adapted to living in urban areas, so they are the primary type found in the Chicago area.
“Foxes also eat fruit,” Schauber said. “So if we had persimmon trees or crab apples or other types of fruiting trees, and they also eat acorns as well.”There are serious downsides to a declining fox population, Schauber said, especially in the “rattiest” city in the U.S., according to the pest control company Orkin. He said foxes eat small prey like squirrels and rats, helping control their populations so they don’t get to pest levels.
A trail-cam photo provided by the Lincoln Park Zoo shows a skunk gang at the Vernon Township cemetery on July 16, 2016.While researchers weren’t able to reach a definitive answer as to why wildlife thrives in cooler cities with lots of green spaces, Jeffrey Haight, a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University and the primary author of the study, suspects it has to do with the urban heat island effect.
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