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“Wildlife” used to be a term associated with plains, prairies, and forests, but these days the great outdoors and critters who live there have inched their way into cities, or in many cases, the other way around.
The 2010 census confirmed that nearly 81 percent of Americans live in urban centers, up from 79 percent in the 2000 census. As America becomes more urbanized, concurrent development slowly infringes on wildlife, forcing more human-animal contacts. This can be good, or it can be bad, depending how events unfold.
Bad examples are abundant: