Urbanization has been a prominent trend in the past few decades. Cities continue to expand and transform natural habitats and ecosystems into new urban spaces, forcing the wildlife in those areas to adapt to the new environment. New York City is not an exception; as the city keeps growing, urban life faces more and more challenges, and it’s our responsibility to take care of the ecosystems around us.
That’s why this experiment will focus on the impact of urbanization on the behavior of squirrels living in urban parks to those living in more suburban areas of the city to figure out if the behavior of urban squirrels is influenced by urbanization.
We want people to take away the scientific correlations we found in our data and we collected 78 samples in order to create the data analysis showcased in our project
Sruthi Manish
Adelisa Music
Ivy Liu
Daniil Musiyenka
Troy
December 11, 2023 — 2:00 pm
Very interesting – I wonder how this plays out among different species of squirrels as well!
Jennifer
December 14, 2023 — 4:20 pm
I find the premise of your research project really interesting but I wish there was more information about your process. From your hypothesis, it seemed like the behavior that your group was trying to focus on was the distance that squirrels stayed away from humans. I’m curious as to how you were able to gather data about the distance between observer and squirrel and also how you gathered your sample of 20 squirrels per park.