Feral Cities (21 page)

Coyotes on the run in Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
TRISTAN DONOVAN

A Hollywood Hills coyote waiting in the bushes for feeding time.
TRISTAN DONOVAN

A leopard on the prowl at the Aarey Milk Colony in the Goregaon East suburb of Mumbai.
COURTESY OF ZEESHAN MIRZA

Tasty gardens and a lack of wolves draw elk to the streets of Banff, Canada.
COURTESY OF JAY PRIEST

A group of monk parakeets hanging out in a Brooklyn electricity substation.
TRISTAN DONOVAN

Chicago's Bird Collision Monitors find another victim of the city's architecture.
TRISTAN DONOVAN

This mosquito leg will keep this book louse well fed for weeks.
MATT BERTONE

Michelle Trautwein searches a lampshade for bugs in a Raleigh, North Carolina, home as part of the Arthropods of Our Homes project.
TRISTAN DONOVAN

Our lights lure crane flies into our homes, but they cannot survive indoors.
MATT BERTONE

Drain flies, also known as moth flies, have turned household drains into their breeding grounds.
MATT BERTONE

The lion of the home: a young house centipede lurking in the carpet.
MATT BERTONE

The spitting spider. These capable household hunters spit poisonous glue at their prey.
MATT BERTONE

The Japanese camel cricket—an unexpected find in basements across eastern North America.
MATT BERTONE