Gizmodo (14 June 2018)

We’re Turning Wild Animals Into Night Owls by Scaring the Heck out of Them

The new meta-analysis, published today in Science, considered 76 studies and included 62 different mammal species across six continents. Those studies monitored animals using technology like motion-activated cameras and satellite data along with direct human observation to record their activities. They also included information on how much the animals came into contact with humans, and considered variables like hunting, hiking, construction, urban development, and farming.
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“Even if you give an advantage to one part of the food web, you take away an advantage somewhere else,” John Barentine, the director of conservation at the International Dark-Sky Association, told Gizmodo. “You’ll quickly throw things out of balance.”

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