Fear of Humans Is Making Animals Around the World Go Nocturnal
Even non-threatening activities like hiking are changing creatures’ sleep cycles.
by Michelle Nijhuis
Jun 14, 2018
2 minutes
In 2011, the wildlife biologist Justin Brashares and his students set up a series of camera traps in and around Ruaha National Park in southern Tanzania. They were studying the effects of human activities on antelope reproduction, but their cameras soon revealed an odd and far more obvious pattern. While the antelope inside the park were active during the day, those outside the park, closer to human settlements, were
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