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How Do You Count All the Squirrels in Central Park?
“If you’re worried and you can’t sleep / count your squirrels rather than sheep.”
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Beavers Were Among New York’s First Builders—Then We Built a City They Can No Longer Live In
Imagining the city rebuilt so that beavers can return is an exercise in humility.
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Horseshoe Crabs Have Survived All of History—and Remind Us How We Could Too
This creature is a survivor. As long as it survives, our notion of the wild, of conditions indifferent to humanity in which other species thrive, survives too.
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What New York City’s Most Famous Peregrine Falcons Taught Me About Parenting
Adele and Frank prepare for an empty nest.
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Why These Seals Left New York—and Why They Came Back
New York is like their Miami resort.
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An Icon of the American Wilderness is Alive in the Bronx
On the surprising research underway in Van Cortlandt Park and the American Museum of Natural History.
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What These Immigrant Parakeets of Brooklyn Can Teach Us About City Life
Among the delights of time spent with urban wildlife is the reminder to be quiet and patient—not an easy task for a New Yorker.