Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times reports

A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.

In the early months of the Covid pandemic, when every bit of news seemed bleak, there was one heartwarming narrative that took hold: With humans stuck in their homes, the world was safe again for wild animals, which could now wander freely through cities, parking lots or fields that once might have been crowded with people.

But a new global study, which used wildlife cameras to track human and animal activity during the Covid lockdowns, suggests that the story was not that simple.

Read more at Where the Wild Things Went During the Pandemic