University of Michigan: Rapid Behavioral Response Of Nepalese Tigers To Reduced Road Traffic During COVID-19 Lockdown
February 07, 2023
February 07, 2023
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues used a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal as a natural experiment to test the responses of two GPS-collared tigers to dramatic reductions in traffic volume along a national highway.
They found that traffic reductions relaxed tiger avoidance of roads: The globally endangered carnivores were two to three times mor . . .
University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues used a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal as a natural experiment to test the responses of two GPS-collared tigers to dramatic reductions in traffic volume along a national highway.
They found that traffic reductions relaxed tiger avoidance of roads: The globally endangered carnivores were two to three times mor . . .