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Juggling a Junk Food Diet: Urban Birds Go on a Diet on Weekends Due to Less Availability of Junk Food
Have you ever found yourself wishing that the cafeteria was opened on weekends? Well apparently so have the birds! Read on to find out how weekly fluctuations in the availability of human food affect the foraging behavior of urban birds.
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Back to the Basics: What is Urban Evolution?
Urban evolution can have different meanings depending on what field you come from. If you are an urban planner, it might mean that urban areas are getting larger, even using sustainable energy sources where they didn’t previously. For some architects…
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Los Angeles Lizards: Shifts in Morphology Associated with Urban Living
Ecomorphology describes how an animal’s physical traits (called morphology) match how it uses its habitat. It is assumed that ecomorphology results from performance-morphology relationships across different habitats. For instance, running speed (a measure of performance) could be affected by limb…
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Urbanization: Beyond Where the Sidewalk Ends
Which picture represents the boundary between an urban and non-urban area? If you answered with any image, you’re not wrong. How we define urbanization is highly variable. It’s context-specific, scale-dependent, and the topic of a rich and ongoing discussion. For the…
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Urban Ichs and Herps!
The annual Joint Meeting of Icthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) kicks off today in Snowbird, Utah. This is one of my favorite conferences so I’m sad I will not be attending this year. And unfortunately, none of our contributors are attending…
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Urban Dragons are Innately Bold
We’ve talked before here on Life in the City about behavioral shifts related to fear and boldness in urban animals (check out: Skirting Skinks: Are Lizards Learning to Live Among Humans?, No city for shy dog, Concrete Escape: Increased Wariness of…
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Urban Evolution at Behaviour 2019
The 56th annual conference of the Animal Behavior Society and the 36th International Ethological Conference will come together for Behaviour 2019 in Chicago, Illinois from July 23 – 27. There are several presentations that are bound to be of interest…
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Skirting Skinks: Are Lizards Learning to Live Among Humans?
You can’t live near humans if you’re afraid. Fleeing constantly can be very costly, so generally animals near humans tend to become accustomed to them. A new research compares skinks in Mo’orea island to see if their escape response varies…
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