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I'm curious to hear how these bridges end up affecting wildlife behaviour once everything matures in. Is the bridge itself territory for any territorial animal
by dalbasal 5y ago
I'm curious to hear how these bridges end up affecting wildlife behaviour once everything matures in.
Is the bridge itself territory for any territorial animals? Is it a dangerous bottleneck, where predators have an upper hand? Etc.
Narrow passages between large habitat areas exist in nature, but they're quite rare.
- herodoturtle 5y agoSouth African here. We see this sort of thing a lot in our many national parks (namely terrain bottlenecks, particularly around watering holes). You're quite right about territorial and / or predatory animals exploiting these. What helps is to keep bush trimmed and to eliminate any dense foliage. So long as there's clear visibility at and around said bottlenecks, it tends to reduce (but not completely eradicate) the tendency for hunts.
- ourmandave 5y agoIn NJ they have two wildlife crossings over the roadway next to a wildlife refugee where they also built a huge retaining wall. They look like county road crossings over the interstate but are completely overgrown with trees and bushes. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wildlife-crossings-creatu_b_10020252 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wildlife-crossings-creatu_b_1...