City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world

By Daniel T. Blumstein, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Mikula, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Piotr Tryjanowski, Professor of Zoology

The urban monkeys in New Delhi are so bold they’ll steal the lunch right off your plate. If you’ve spent time in New York, you’ve probably seen squirrels try to do the same. Sydney’s white ibises got the nickname “bin chickens” for stealing trash and sandwiches.

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