Feral Cities (36 page)

Vyawahare, Malavika. “A Conversation With: Delhi's Wildlife Warden.”
New York Times,
May 23, 2012.
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/a-conversation-with-delhis-wildlife-warden
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Waite, Tom A., Anil K. Chhangani, Lesley G. Campbell, Lal S. Rajpurohit, and Surendra M. Mohnot. “Sanctuary in the City: Urban Monkeys Buffered Against Catastrophic Die-Off During ENSO-Related Drought.”
EcoHealth
3 (2007): 278–286.

Yeld, John. “William the Baboon Trapped and Killed.” IOL News, July 7, 2010.
www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/william-the-baboon-trapped-and-killed-1.489119
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7. The Lion of Hollywood

Agence France-Presse. “Leopard Filmed Snatching Dog from Mumbai Home.” NDTV, June 27, 2013.
www.ndtv.com/article/cities/leopard-filmed-snatching-dog-from-mumbai-home-385026
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Athreya, Vidya, and Vidya Venkatesh.
Mumbaikars for SGNP 2011–2012.
Forest Department & Centre for Wildlife Studies report (2012).

BBC News. “Leopard Dies from People Attack.” January 18, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6274415.stm
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BBC Two. “Leopards: 21st Century Cats.” First broadcast August 8, 2013.

Beckmann, Jon P., Leslie Karasin, Cecily Costello, Sean Matthews, and Zoë Smith.
Coexisting with Black Bears: Perspectives from Four Case Studies Across North America.
Bozeman, MT: Wildlife Conservation Society, 2008.

Beier, Paul, Seth P. D. Riley, and Raymond M. Sauvajot. “Mountain Lions
(Puma concolor).”
In
Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict, and Conservation,
edited by Gehrt, Stanley D., Seth P. D. Riley, and Brian L. Cypher. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Bhagat, Simit. “Spotted: Ajoba's Trek from Malshej Ghat to National Park.”
Times of India,
June 30, 2010.

Bhattasali, Amitabha. “Leopard in Deadly Attack in Indian City of Guwahati.”
BBC News,
January 9, 2012.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16473569
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Bidkar, Manoj, and Siddharth Gadkari. “Big Cat's Big Adventure.”
Pune Mirror,
July 13, 2010.

Biswas, Partha Sarathi. “City Anchor: Leopards Thrive Unnoticed in Human-Populated Area.”
Indian Express,
February 22, 2013.
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/city-anchor-leopards-thrive-unnoticed-in-humanpopulated-areas/1077943
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Davidson, Neil.
The Early History of “Non-Lethal Weapons.”
Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project occasional paper 1 (December 2006).
www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BNLWRP_OP1_Dec06.pdf
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Groves, Martha. “Scientists Track Cougar's Wild Nightlife Above Hollywood.”
Los Angeles Times,
October 4, 2013.
www.latimes.com/local/la-me-griffith-park-lion-20131005-story.html
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Hindu, The.
“Girl Falls Prey to Leopard in Mumbai.” July 17, 2012.
www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/article3646930.ece
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Kertson, Brian N., Rocky D. Spencer, and Christian E. Grue. “Cougar Prey Use in a Wildland-Urban Environment in Western Washington.”
Northwestern Naturalist
92 (2011): 175–185.

KOLO 8. “Mountain Lion Cornered in Downtown Reno.” August 24, 2012.
www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/167312605.html
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Lenin, Janaki. “Sugarcane Leopards.”
Current Conservation
4, no. 4 (2010).

Maharashtra Pollution Control Board.
District Environmental Atlas of Pune District.
MPCB, 2006.
http://mpcb.gov.in/relatedtopics/PuneDEA_Annexure%20I.pdf
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McKenzie, John A. “The Demographic and Nutritional Benefits of Urban Habitat Use by Elk.” Master's thesis, University of Guelph, 2001.

NDTV. “Leopard Sighting Triggers Panic, 30,000 People Under House Arrest.” December 26, 2011.
www.ndtv.com/article/cities/leopard-sighting-triggers-panic-30-000-people-under-house-arrest-160816
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9News. “Dumpster-Diving Bear Caught on Camera.” August 1, 2013.
www.9news.com/story/local/2013/08/01/1870876
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Ordeñana, Miguel. “What's on P22's Menu?” Urban Carnivores, September 24, 2013.
www.urbancarnivores.com/miguels-blog/2013/9/24/whats-on-p-22s-menu
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Southeast Lifestyle.
“Bears in Urban Areas (Health Information).” Accessed August 20, 2014.
www.selifestyle.com/Bears.html
.

Thaxton, Zach. “Mtn. Lion Snatches Dog Being Walked on Leash Near Broadmoor.” KOAA 5, March 19, 2013.
www.koaa.com/news/mtn-lion-snatches-dog-being-walked
-on-leash-near-broadmoor.

8. Singing a Different Song

Arroyo-Solís, A., J. M. Castillo, E. Figueroa, J. L. López-Sánchez, and H. Slabbekoorn. “Experimental Evidence for an Impact of Anthropogenic Noise on Dawn Chorus Timing in Urban Birds.”
Journal of Avian Biology
44 (2013): 288–296.

Avian Welfare Coalition. “Frequently Asked Questions About Monk Parrots
(Myiopsitta monachus),
Also Known as Quaker or Monk Parakeets.” Official website. Accessed August 20, 2014.
www.avianwelfare.org/issues/forum.htm
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Badger, Emily. “Sparrows Actually Change Their Tune to Sing over the Noise of the City.”
Atlantic Cities,
April 4, 2012.
www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/04/sparrows-actually-change-their-song-sing-over-noise-city/1667
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Barrett, David. “Bel Air Fire.” Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society. Accessed August 20, 2014.
www.lafdmuseum.org/bel-air-fire
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Bittner, Mark.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.
New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

Chonghaile, Clar Ni. “Kenyan Rubbish Dump Offers Little Money for Much Misery.”
Guardian,
September 18, 2012.
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/sep/18/money-misery-nairobi-dandora-dump
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Clucas, Barbara, and John M. Marzluff. “Coupled Relationships Between Humans and Other Organisms in Urban Areas.” In
Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications,
edited by Jari Niemelä, Jürgen H. Breuste, Glenn Guntenspergen, Nancy E. McIntyre, Thomas Elmqvist, and Philip James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Dobson, Roger. “Twitter in the City: The Urban Life of Birds.”
Independent,
January 31, 2011.

Dowling, J. L., D. A. Luther, and P. P. Marra. “Comparative Effects of Urban Development and Anthropogenic Noise on Bird Songs.”
Behavioral Ecology,
2011.
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/11/11/beheco.arr176.full
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Environmental Protection Agency. “Urban Heat Island Basics.” In
Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies.
EPA, October 2008.
www.epa.gov/heatisland/resources/pdf/BasicsCompendium.pdf
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Frey, Corinne M., Gergely Rigo, and Eberhard Parlow. “Investigation of the Daily Urban Cooling Island (UCI) in Two Coastal Cities in an Arid Environment: Dubai and Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.).”
ISPRS Archives
36, part 8/W27 (2005).

Garrett, Kimball L. “Population Status and Distribution of Naturalized Parrots in Southern California.”
Western Birds
28 (1997): 181–195.

Garrett, Kimball L., Karen T. Mabb, Charles T. Collins, and Lisa M. Kares. “Food Items of Naturalized Parrots in Southern California.”
Western Birds
28 (1997): 196–201.

Gehrt, Stanley D., Seth P. D. Riley, and Brian L. Cypher, eds.
Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict and Conservation.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Groffman, Peter M., Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, et al. “Ecological Homogenization of Urban USA.”
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
12 (2014): 74–81.

Haag-Wackernagel, Daniel. “The Feral Pigeon.” Research Group Integrative Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Basel. Accessed August 20, 2014.
http://anatomie.unibas.ch/IntegrativeBiology/haag/Culture-History-Pigeon/feral-pigeon-haag.html
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Human Planet,
episode “Cities: Surviving the Urban Jungle.” Directed by Mark Flowers. First broadcast by BBC One, March 3, 2011.

Humphries, Courtney.
Superdove.
New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008.

Jerzak, Leszek. “Synurbanization of the Magpie in the Palearctic.” In
Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World,
edited by John Marzluff, Reed Bowman, and Roarke Donnelly. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Johnston, Richard F., and Marián Janiga.
Feral Pigeons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lowry, Hélène, Alan Lill, and Bob B. M. Wong. “How Noisy Does a Noisy Miner Have to Be? Amplitude Adjustments of Alarm Calls in an Avian Urban ‘Adapter.'”
PLoS One
7 (2012).

Martin, Glen.
Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Marzluff, John.
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans.
New York: Atria, 2013.

Marzluff, John, and Tony Angell.
In the Company of Crows and Ravens.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

McDonald, Michele. “Sparrows Change Their Tune to Be Heard in Noisy Cities.” George Mason University, April 2, 2012.
http://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2012/04/sparrows
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Mosca, Alexandra Kathryn.
Green-Wood Cemetery.
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

Most, Madison. “The Concrete Jungle: Uncovering the Mystery of Wild Parrots in Southern California.” Havasi Wilderness Foundation, October 25, 2012.
www.havasiwf.org/the-concrete-jungle-uncovering-the-mystery-of-wild-parrots-in-southern-california
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Niemelä, Jari, ed.
Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Nordt, Anja, and Reinhard Klenke. “Sleepless in Town—Drivers of the Temporal Shift in Dawn Song in Urban European Blackbirds.”
PLoS One
8 (2013).

Pilipili, Oscar. “Marabou Storks, a Fortune or Nuisance?” Standard Digital, February 6, 2009.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=1144005945&pageNo=1
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Rogers, Simon. “Every Train Station in Britain Listed and Mapped: Find Out How Busy Each One is.”
Guardian,
April 25, 2013.
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/may/19/train-stations-listed-rail
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Sacchi, Roberto, Augusto Gentilli, Edoardo Razzetti, and Francesco Barbieri. “Effects of Building Features on Density and Flock Distribution of Feral Pigeons
Columba livia
var.
domestica
in an Urban Environment.”
Canadian Journal of Zoology
80 (2002): 48–54.

Thompson, Clive. “How Loud Is It?”
New York Magazine,
July 12, 2004.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/features/noise/9456/index1.html
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Toronto Zoo. “Marabou Stork.” Official website. Accessed August 20, 2014.
www.torontozoo.com/explorethezoo/AnimalDetails.asp?pg=618
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Vulture Territory. “Marabou Stork.” Accessed August 20, 2014.
www.vulture-territory.com/marabou.html
.

Yamac, Elif, and Cihangir Kirazli. “Road Effects on the Breeding Success and Nest Characteristics of the Eurasian Magpie (
Pica pica
).”
Ekoloji
21 (2012): 1–10.

9. The Chicago Bird Massacre

American Bird Conservancy. “Minnesota and Oakland, Calif. Adopt Bird-Friendly Building Requirements.” Media release, June 26, 2013.
www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130626.html
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Audubon Minnesota.
Bird-Safe Building Guidelines.
Saint Paul, MN: Audubon Minnesota, 2010.

DeBare, Ilana. “Oakland Adopts Bird-Safe Building Measures.” Golden Gate Birder, June 16, 2013.
www.goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/oakland-adopts-bird-safety-building-measures
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Fatal Light Awareness Program. “Toronto Becomes World's First City to Mandate Bird-Friendly Buildings.” Media release, October 28, 2009.

Loss, Scott R. “Bird-Building Collisions in the United States: Estimates of Annual Mortality and Species Vulnerability.”
Condor
116 (2014): 8–23.

Martin, Graham R. “Understanding Bird Collisions with Man-Made Objects: A Sensory Ecology Approach.”
IBIS
153 (2011): 239–254.

Niemelä, Jari, ed.
Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

10. Suburbia Crawling

BBC News. “Ant Supercolony Dominates Europe.” April 16, 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1932509.stm
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Brand, Jacqueline.
“Scytodes thoracica.”
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan, 2013.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Scytodes_thoracica
.

Brown, Brian V. “Small Size No Protection for Acrobat Ants: World's Smallest Fly is a Parasitic Phorid (Diptera: Phoridae).”
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
105 (2012): 550–554.

Buczkowski, Grzegorz. “Extreme Life History Plasticity and the Evolution of Invasive Characteristics in a Native Ant.”
Biological Invasions
12 (2010): 3343–3349.

Diaz, Ryder. “Argentine Ants March Through Bay Area.”
San Jose Mercury News,
March 12, 2013.
www.mercurynews.com/ci_22767106/argentine-ants-march-through-bay-area
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Gotzek, Dietrich, Seán G. Brady, Robert J. Kallal, and John S. LaPolla. “The Importance of Using Multiple Approaches for Identifying Emerging Invasive Species: The Case of the Rasberry Crazy Ant in the United States.”
PLoS One
9 (2012).
http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/pdf/Gotzek%202012.pdf
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