monkeys brawling over food in the centre of Thailand’s historic city of Lopburi, wild turkeys strolling the suburbs of Louisiana and penguins waddling through a residential neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa. “Even here on the campus of the University Toronto Scarborough, when I bike in, I routinely see deer now on-campus,” said Marc Cadotte, a professor of biological sciences.“The major inhibitor of the movement of animals across the city is traffic, busy roads.
And now we’ve seen major roads, major arteries in the city being almost devoid of cars,” Cadotte said.This spring, traffic volumes in Toronto were cut in half.