In Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Each night, small armies of raccoons raid the garbage cans here for food. Urban raccoons in many cities across the U.S. have become habituated to humans and excess garbage as a main food source. Here, a raccoon rifles through a recycling can, unaware if its vunerability.
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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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