A female black bear and her cub scour this South Lake Tahoe, California (USA) neighborhood in search of food, and will commonly break into garage doors to get to garbage stored inside. Bears in South Lake Tahoe are growing increasingly bold, even staying awake in the Winter when they should be in torpor due to the year around supply of food to be found in the human built landscape. No bait was used to make this photo. This image is part of a series investigating the intelligence of urban animals and documenting the unique problems urban animals must solve to find nutrition.
Cities Gone Wild
Cities Gone Wild is an exploration of three savvy animals: black bears, coyotes and raccoons. Each of these urban carnivores are uniquely equipped to survive and even thrive in the human built landscape at a time when urbanization is decimating habitat for less adapted wildlife. I tracked these three carnivores in cities across the United States, to reveal how they are using our infrastructure and resources to carve out a unique place in society that might help them survive an uncertain future. Published in the July, 2022 issue of National Geographic Magazine
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