Scores of animals using Florida city’s sewer system, researchers find
According to UPI Odd News, A team of University of Florida researchers in Gainesville, Fla. recently discovered an “abundance of animals” using the city’s sewer system. The research team set up 39 cameras in 33 different stormwater sewers in Gainesville in order to record wildlife activity in the underground tunnel system over a period of 60 days.
Alan Ivory, doctoral student and lead research author for Urban Naturalist, reported that his research team recorded approx. 3,800 sightings of 35 animal species, including 50 alligator sightings.
Ivory told reporters that alligators were likely using the sewers to travel between ponds, and others appeared to be hunting for fish within the tunnel system.
The research team said they also documented about 1,800 raccoon sightings -- and the animals would sometimes walk off with the cameras. Other animals caught on camera included bats, armadillos and 12 species of birds.
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