Natural History Wanderings

The BBC reports

In the 400 years since New York City’s birth, the local wildlife has adapted to a life of fast food, pollution and isolation.

At a top secret location in Manhattan, within a large public park, is a tiny patch of moist hillside. Flecked with shade from a grove of young maple, oak, and black cherry trees, the area is bordered by a busy road and sits just across the street from a school. And yet, stalking the slope’s meadows of moss and wildflowers, lounging among decaying logs and fallen leaves, is a population of New York City’s most obscure inhabitants.

This is predator territory, and here lives a killer so rare and little-known, only a handful of New York City’s eight million or so residents have ever seen one. “They will eat anything they can stuff into their mouths. They’ll eat each other.

Read more at The mutant wildlife adapting to New York City