So in a sense, this was a huge global experiment, on a scale that's never been done before," says St.
"It's not usually possible to separate the effects of the road infrastructure from the effects of traffic. Clair, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta, who was not involved in the study but wrote a commentary accompanying its results. The work caught the attention of Colleen Cassady St. "This was quite sort of exciting to see," says Tucker, "because it shows that animals still have the capacity to change their behavior in response to us changing our behavior." Clues for managing wildlife While they saw some variability between species and individuals, their study shows that many mammals can quickly adapt to sudden changes in the amount of traffic on roads. When the lockdowns started, she says, "we thought, 'Oh, this is quite a sort of unique opportunity that we can actually disentangle or separate the effects of human mobility.' " "We weren't really able to tease apart why that was," says Tucker, who says that roads and other human structures might act as physical barriers, for example, or human activities might affect the availability of food resources. Marlee Tucker, a researcher with Radboud University, says that she and her colleagues knew from previous research that animals living in places with a high human presence tended to move around less. ATLANTA Georgia Governor Brian Kemp made his stance on another statewide lockdown or mask mandate clear Wednesday in a post on his official Facebook Page. Everywhere in the world has the same problems right now. From pandemic lockdowns, an experimental opportunity Right now there's 2 or 3 thousand new cases per day so it would not be a surprise if there was another lockdown. The findings offer new insight into the ways that everyday human behavior can directly impact the lives of wild animal populations. The animals also crept 36% closer to roadways.
It turns out that, on average, the animals traveled 73% farther during the initial COVID lockdowns than they did during the same time period a year earlier. This included everything from pumas in California to elephants in South Africa to reindeer in Norway. Researchers looked at the movements of over 2,000 animals from 43 mammalian species that were being tracked with GPS devices around the world.
When the spreading coronavirus pandemic prompted lockdowns in the early months of 2020, people stayed home and traffic volume quickly plummeted.Īs a result, many animals started traveling longer distances, and were willing to venture closer to roadways, according to a new study in the journal Science. Mountain goats roamed the streets of LLandudno, Wales in March of 2020, as the COVID-19 lockdown kept people and tourists away.
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