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The urban wild: animals take to the streets amid lockdown in picturesAnimals have started taking advantage of cities as they enter lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. From New Delhi, India to Buenos Aires, Argentina, groups of animals including deer and lemurs have started to come out to explore in search of food or just to play.
Link to gallery: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/apr/22/animals-roaming-streets-coronavirus-lockdown-photos
The goats normally live on the rocky Great Orme but are occasional visitors to the seaside town, but a local councillor told the BBC that the herd was drawn this time by the lack of people and tourists
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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snowybirdie
(5,191 posts)We have a bear frolicking in the pond out back. It's hot!
Bayard
(21,806 posts)Thanks!
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)Codifer
(535 posts)"Earth Abides" was written in the late 1940s by George R. Stewart. Stewart had, at the time, a great relationship with Carl Sauer (UC Berkely) also know as "the father of California geography".
In a post apocalyptic world in which very few random humans survived a lethal virus, Stewart explores the fate of animals domestic, wild and feral as well as the more difficult prediction of human reaction and adaptation. The book is well researched and scientifically tight.
Well worth the read. (If you can find it)
Who knows, perhaps the arrow points made from the red disks with a depiction of the bearded guy are not as good for bringing down a deer as are those points hammered from the silvery disk with the buffalo on it.
ThingsGottaChange
(1,200 posts)Let the animals have their planet back! Man has been destroying the amazing creatures and their habitats for centuries. For their own greed. How many species have we wiped out for a profit? Will this, or another, virus finally wipe out the human race? Maybe. It's natures way of telling us something's wrong. And I am in Mother Natures corner.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)The shifting of the plates will ensure that every species alive today will go extinct at some point.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)live love laugh
(13,009 posts)IOW what things would look like without mans destruction.