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Saber-tooth died out, but another big cat survived. The puma may have been more able to adapt because its diet is more varied and includes small prey. The grizzly bear also lived through the post Ice Age changes and now thrives in North America. Once
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Downtown L.A., the ultimate modern American city, but Los Angeles skyscrapers are built over the graves of thousands of extinct Ice Age beasts. Today all we have are memorials to these vanished animals, but imagine if they had survived into the prese
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To find the answers, we need to rewind history around 14,000 years to a time when the first people set foot in North America. The continent was about to undergo a profound change, a change these new arrivals may have played a part in. Throughout the
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But even on its own, a mammoth was still highly dangerous and an attack required stealth and teamwork. One of the hunters may have acted as a decoy, distracting the animal while others surrounded it. These hunters had another trick up their sleeve. U
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The same signs appear in young male mammoth tusks, but those living in North America at the end of Ice Age laid down their stress rings three years earlier than usual. In other words, it seems that young males were leaving the herd at an earlier age.
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But there is a problem with the idea that hunting caused the mass extinction. Mammoths were not the only animals to disappear. Camels survived for millions of years in North America, but disappeared around the same time as the mammoths. Wild horses f
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...and may trace their ancestry all the way back to the first dogs to enter North America. The Carolina dogs are pack animals with a strick hierarchy topped by an alpha male. Like most wild dogs, they hunt in groups. But many of the kills they make a
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Just over 500 years ago, Europeans arrived in North America. And with these colonizers came an animal that hadnt been seen here for thousands of years. The horse returned to the Americas, now tamed and carrying the Spanish conquistadors. This new for
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By the mid 1800s, the horse and the cowboy had come to symbolize the wild west. And of course, with the cowboys came cattle. As the bison quickly vanished from the landscape, cattle filled their place. Meanwhile increasing numbers of the tame horses
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This may look like a safari through the African savanna. In fact it's a theme park in Florida. And it allows people to experience a world outside their own. In some ways, they are visiting a land from another time. 14 thousand years ago, large parts
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Its incredible that so many birds cram into the tiny spaces underneath the bridge. But the battle for living spaces is now an everyday fact of city life. The most populated North American city is New York. Here space is a precious commodity with more
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Its also a prime hunting ground for red-tailed hawks. And they have the perfect nesting site right next to it. Theyd moved in on the top floor of this expensive Manhattan apartment block. It acts like a surrogate tree, supporting their large nest. Th
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At first, the Europeans relied heavily on local food supply by native people. But as they settled in, their farming practices began to shape the landscape of North America. The plow allowed them to farm larger areas of land, helping to feed the expan
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And farming fuelled the growth of another habitat, one that would become an even bigger challenge to North America's wildlife. The modern city was born. The city is an artificial environment, built around the needs of millions of people, and yet it a
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The owls can raise anything from 1 to 12 chicks in a summer season. To survive, their young will have to quickly learn to negotiate the dangers of city life. Longer hunting trips are sometimes necessary as open land disappears. But so long as the cit
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Although many of these city foxes do get killed by cars, the population as a whole is thriving. Thats because a regular supply of water means a regular supply of prey, including voles and ground squirrels. Playing on the streets at night is dangerous
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Moose mainly browse on trees and shrubs, but they will also sample something new. They have a soft spot for pumpkins left out after Halloween. As many as 1,000 moose may enter Anchorage in winter, snowfall here is lower than its surrounding hills and
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This disused car park is a near-perfect location for raising chicks, and only a short flight from a plentiful supply of food. Skimmers get their name from their unusual feeding technique--their extended lower bill detects fish just below the water su
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But there is at least one place in Florida where the manatees benefit from humans being around. Clean, hot water released from this power plant turns a man-made inlet into a hot tub. And during winter months when sea temperatures drop below 20 degree
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This mass roosting takes place soon after the summer nesting season. Its a chance for the birds to molt before they fly south for the winter. As Vauxs swift numbers reach a peak in mid September, they attract attention from the locals. Coopers hawks
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