Hacker News with Generative AI: Urban Wildlife

10 Lizards were smuggled into Cincinnati in a sock. Now there are thousands (nationalgeographic.com)
For more than 70 years, thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, from Europe have made Cincinnati their home. Even through record-low temperatures and snowfall, they’ve managed to survive—and multiply. But how did these Mediterranean reptiles gain such a foothold in a Midwestern city? It all started with a 10-year-old boy and a sock full of lizards.
Crows and Magpies Snatch Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests (smithsonianmag.com)
London's history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital (bigissue.com)