Each night in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California (USA) small armies of raccoons raid the garbage cans after that days human visitors have dispersed. After spotting active raccoons in the area, I placed a camera trap with a remote trigger on this set of garbage cans wondering if the raccoons would stop be for a look. I captured this raccoon suspending between the two cans as it descended. This image is part of an investigation of urban wildlife intelligence, and how urban bears might be changing compared to their rural cousins. No bait was used.
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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