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Louise Gentle, Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University

Five ways humans have scuppered the love lives of animals

In Canada, male bears are becoming more nocturnal and overlapping less with females. Erik Mandre / shutterstock

Frustrated with which dating app to use? Unable to find “the one”? Spare a thought for some of the animal kingdom, where humanity has hampered their efforts to find a mate.

Humans have destroyed or polluted animal habitats. But perhaps the most obvious way that we have affected animals is by placing barriers, such as roads, between populations, making it hard for individual animals to reach each other. In response to this habitat fragmentation, reptile and bird species have increased the distances they move by 35% and 50% respectively.

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