It's easy to think that humans are the only ones impacted by daylightsavingtime, but wildlife (specifically city-dwelling) is deeply impacted by how we interact with them after we change our clocks.
, as it does in the Australian black field cricket.
Given that city-dwelling animals must match our schedules to survive, how do they fare when those schedules abruptly shift as a result of daylight saving time? According to Lehrer, they may be able to adjust rather quickly. “I could see there being potentially a short-term, for example, in the spring when we go forward an hour and light conditions are much darker in the morning,” she says.
One way daylight saving time can cause trouble is through wildlife-vehicle collisions, as shifting clocks put more drivers on the road at darker hours. In a new study,following the end of daylight saving time, compared to the spring shift. The study’s co-authors say the time change led to more commuters hitting the roads at dusk, when deer are most active.
“There are innovative ways people are thinking more critically about how much light we really need to have,” Lehrer says. “If there are areas where humans aren’t active in the middle of the night, maybe we don’t need to have those spaces lit. We can use things like controls where we can adjust the lighting to be less bright during certain periods of the day.” It seems the secret to any good relationship — a healthy amount of personal space — applies to humans and other animals too.
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