I stumbled upon this interesting article in the New Yorker about ant diversity in a busy urban New York City environment. A graduate student, Marko Pecarevic, did work entitled Ant Diversity and Abundance Increase with Increasing Plant Complexity and Amount of Garbage Bins in New York City Street Medians. Check it out here! This work just shows that ecology, biology, curiosity, and nature can be explored, experienced, and wondered-upon ANYWHERE! Man has no excuse to feel they've lost touch with nature and the world. They haven't and hopefully never will. This life is amazing.
From the article - "For someone interested, as Pecarevic was, in the ecology of heavily compromised urban environments, medians were like remote, unexplored island chains—a Galápagos in Manhattan. He decided to be their Darwin. Employing Google Earth (forgive him, he’s from Zagreb), he chose three median-rich stretches—Park Avenue, the West Side Highway, and Broadway—then made himself an official-looking ID, dressed in parkish green, and started collecting ants, travelling the city with a duffelbag of garden tools and Evian bottles filled with antifreeze. No one bothered him."
From the article - "For someone interested, as Pecarevic was, in the ecology of heavily compromised urban environments, medians were like remote, unexplored island chains—a Galápagos in Manhattan. He decided to be their Darwin. Employing Google Earth (forgive him, he’s from Zagreb), he chose three median-rich stretches—Park Avenue, the West Side Highway, and Broadway—then made himself an official-looking ID, dressed in parkish green, and started collecting ants, travelling the city with a duffelbag of garden tools and Evian bottles filled with antifreeze. No one bothered him."
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The bottles filled with antifreeze was, unfortunately the thing that stuck out the most to me ): But really neat, nonetheless. Reminds me of something you could use in your future class(es).
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