Animals becoming nocturnal to avoid people

[Catherine]

Quote:Strangely, around here, animals are beginning to venture into towns and cities much more often, with no apparent regard for the people living there.

That is noticeable here too. Raccoons have established themselves in the city and they are more sophisticated than there rural cousins. They understand doors and kitchens. We have coyotes on the edges of the city and even deer. They find a park and they settle down. They don't want to leave.
I have seem possums in the city and skunks. We have had a neighbourhood skunk for years.

Since the city is never dark these animals are not letting the light bother them. As we change how we live when we adapt to city life, the animals are changing with us. I don't know if it will harm the animals, but it will certainly change them.

I don't think we know how we are being changed either. Only time will tell.