In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study the most elusive residents in the United States city of Detroit — coyotes, foxes, raccoons and skunks among them.Harris and her colleagues have placed trail cameras in woodsy sections of 25 city parks for the past five years. They’ve recorded thousands of images of animals that emerge mostly at night to roam and forage, revealing a wild side many locals might not know exists.“We’re getting more and more exposure to wildlife in urban environments,” Harris said while checking the devices, fastened to trees with steel cables. “As we’re changing their habitats, as we’re expanding the footprint of urbanization … we’ll increasingly come in contact with them.”
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