Animals flip to a nocturnal schedule

To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 15 June 2018 [[The Conversation]Academic rigor, journalistic flair]( Editor's note It’s hard for animals to find places that remain untouched by human beings. Berkeley wildlife ecologist Kaitlyn Gaynor and her colleagues noticed that the mammals they studied seemed to be more active at night than in the past. So they decided to investigate: Are animals all over the world “[adjusting their daily activity patterns to avoid humans in time](, given that it is becoming harder to avoid us in space”? For parents, time often seems to fly by as the babies they could once hold in their hands all too quickly become toddlers, teens and adults. Keith Payne, a father as well as a professor of psychology and neuroscience, explains [why we perceive time as whooshing by]( – and why, fortunately, it’s all in our heads. 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