COVID-19 effect: Humans stay indoors, animals venture out

With around half of humanity indoors, under some form of lockdown to escape the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, the animal kingdom is presenting interesting developments. | Above: A coyote stands by the roadside at Golden Gate Bridge View Vista Point across from San Francisco.

The cacophony of human activity is being replaced by chirping birds not heard otherwise, or the sighting of bold packs of scavengers used to hiding timidly in city parks. | Above: Peacocks walk on a lane near Lodhi road, in New Delhi.

Animals encroached upon and pushed to the edges of cities are slowly venturing into spaces left silent by human beings. | Above: A puma climbs a wall at dawn in a neighbourhood before being captured and taken to a zoo, in Santiago, Chile. Chilean authorities captured at least three cougars during lockdown.

A kangaroo hops through empty streets during the lockdown restrictions in Adelaide, Australia.

A man feeds deer in Harold Hill housing estate in Romford, Britain.

A red-tailed hawk feasts on a pigeon in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park with the skyline of midtown Manhattan in the background in New York City.

A racoon walks over the running path in almost deserted Central Park in Manhattan.

A badger is seen on a deserted road, in Prayagraj, India.

A pack of jackals eats dog food that was left for them by a woman at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ducks are pictured in front of the Comedie Francaise, Place Colette, in Paris.

Wild boars cross a road in a residential area in Haifa, northern Israel.

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Peacocks seen on a rooftop of a closed NDMC shop at Green Park in New Delhi.

Two deers wandering around Boissy-Saint-Leger, near Paris.

Two ducks walk across an empty street in Paris.

Wild boars eat the grass in a garden close to a residential buildings in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.

People jog near a jackal at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, Israel.

A peacock stands in front of the door of a closed bar, in the old town in Ronda, southern Spain.

Deers stand in a field in front of houses near Ernstbrunn, Austria.

Ducks are seen near The Comedie Francaise in Paris.