SciShow: 6 Animals Living Their Best Lives in Cities | Synurbic Species

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Content of the Lesson: When humans build a city, most species in the area tend to disappear. But there are some, called synurbic species, that are living their best lives in our concrete jungles. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Peregrine falcons https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27420915 https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-12-30.1 https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.803 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6049131 https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/indiana/stories-in-indiana/peregrine-falcons/ Raccoons https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-017-1129-z https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2017.00118 https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2016.110003 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35151882 Northern water snakes https://doi.org/10.1655/08-038R2.1 https://doi.org/10.1656/058.016.0313 https://doi.org/10.1139/z05-182 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy052 https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/458/ https://doi.org/10.1899/12-046.1 Flying foxes https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109810 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12884 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00738.x https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_2 http://doi.org/10.1163/156853007X169360 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-018-0814-2 Mugger crocodiles https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2010-17-1-43-50 http://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3790.9.12.11016-11024 https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2977.3333-41 https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2014-21-3-237-240 https://juniperpublishers.com/jojwb/JOJWB.MS.ID.555554.php https://edepot.wur.nl/477628 http://www.herpconbio.org/Volume_14/Issue_3/Vyas_Vasava_2019.pdf https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/1324/2408 Macaques https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085497 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-012-0330-6 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974434 https://doi.org/10.5539/ach.v6n2p33 https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2010.508565 https://doi.org/10.7763/IJESD.2014.V5.509 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-monkeys-move-to-town-64678785/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/fighting-monkeys-highlight-effect-of-coronavirus-on-thailand-tourism Image Credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marine_Parkway_Bridge_Chicks_(14276591386).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peregrine_Falcon_Nepal.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peregrine_Falcon_perched_on_Cliff_at_Roundham_Head.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peregrine_Falcon_perched_on_Cliff_at_Roundham_Head_(2).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peregrine_falcons_(4942697899).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falco_peregrinus_Morro_Rock.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falco_peregrinus_good_-_Christopher_Watson.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falco_peregrinus_nest_USFWS.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peregrine_Falcon_(18593782884).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P,p%27-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falco_peregrinus_MWNH_0671.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerodia_sipedon_sipedon_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerodia-sipedon-004.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelma_Kalong-Flughund_Pteropus_vampyrus_0513.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pteropus_giganteus_colony.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pteropus_poliocephalus_colony.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mugger_crocodile_in_Chittagong_Zoo_(03).JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vishwamitri-river-1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crab-eating_macaque_2_-_Lop_Buri.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monkey_Kai_Bae.jpg


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